Cost-benefit analysis I

Readings due before class on Monday, March 26, 2018

Required

Important: The PDF of the chapter is posted on Learning Suite.

• Chapter 8 in Jonathan Gruber, Public Finance and Public PolicyJonathan Gruber, Public Finance and Public Policy, 1st ed. (New York: Worth Publishers, 2005).
  
  
• Stephen Colbert, “The Wørd—Priceless,”He’s kinda wrong here, btw.
  
  July 14, 2008
• David Evans, “What The Martian teaches us about the value of a statistical life”, People, Spaces, Deliberation, The World Bank, October 2, 2015