Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice

About Aidan R. ViningAnthony E. BoardmanDavid H. GreenbergDavid L. Weimer

Anthony E. Boardman is a professor at the University of British Columbia Vancouver. With colleagues he has won the Peter Larkin Award the Alan Blizzard Award the John Vanderkamp prize and the J. E. Hodgetts Award. He has also been a consultant to many leading public sector and private sector organisations including the Government of Canada and the Inter-American Development Bank. He served two terms on the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board and is currently on the Board of the Institute for Health System Transformation and Sustainability. David H. Greenberg is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He is a labor economist and cost-benefit analyst who received his Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before coming to UMBC he worked for the Rand Corporation SRI International and the US Department of Health and Human Services. He has taught courses in cost-benefit analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison George Washington University Budapest University of Economic Science and the Central European University Budapest. He is a long time consultant to MDRC Abt Associates and other research organizations. Aidan R. Vining is the CNABS Professor of Business and Government Relations at Simon Fraser University British Columbia. With co-authors he is a winner of the John Vanderkamp prize (Canadian Economics Association) and the J. E. Hodgetts Award (Institute of Public Administration of Canada). With David Weimer he is the co-author of Policy Analysis; Concepts and Practice (2017). David L. Weimer is the Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He was president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in 2006 and president of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis in 2013. He is a past editor of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and currently serves on many editorial boards. He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.