Criteria for Public Investment: Some Simplifying Suggestions

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Previous articleNext article No AccessCriteria for Public Investment: Some Simplifying SuggestionsE. J. MishanE. J. Mishan Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 75, Number 2Apr., 1967 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/259259 Views: 4Total views on this site Citations: 22Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1967 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Giuseppe Munda, Agata Matarazzo On the impossibility of using “the correct” cost–benefit aggregation rule, Journal of Economic Studies ahead-of-print, no.ahead-of-printahead-of-print (Apr 2020).https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-06-2019-0269Douglas A. Conrad, Sean D. Sullivan Health Economics, (Sep 2014).https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118445112.stat05319Mike Paulden, Karl Claxton Budget allocation and the revealed social rate of time preference for health, Health Economics 21, no.55 (Mar 2011): 612–618.https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.1730Karl Claxton, Mike Paulden, Hugh Gravelle, Werner Brouwer, Anthony J. Culyer Discounting and decision making in the economic evaluation of health-care technologies, Health Economics 20, no.11 (May 2010): 2–15.https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.1612Colin Price Low discount rates and insignificant environmental values, Ecological Economics 69, no.1010 (Aug 2010): 1895–1903.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.04.024Douglas A. Conrad, Sean D. Sullivan Health Economics, (Jul 2005).https://doi.org/10.1002/0470011815.b2a4a013Michael C. Jensen, Martin J. Bailey Risk and the Discount Rate for Public Investment, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2003).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.390110Robert C Lind Reassessing the government's discount rate policy in light of new theory and data in a world economy with a high degree of capital mobility, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 18, no.22 (Mar 1990): S8–S28.https://doi.org/10.1016/0095-0696(90)90035-WE Kula An Empirical Investigation on the Social Time-Preference Rate for the United Kingdom, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 17, no.22 (Jul 2016): 199–212.https://doi.org/10.1068/a170199K.J. Stocks Discount rate for technology assessment, Energy Economics 6, no.33 (Jul 1984): 177–185.https://doi.org/10.1016/0140-9883(84)90014-8E Kula Future Generations and Discounting Rules in Public Sector Investment Appraisal, Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 13, no.77 (Jul 1981): 899–910.https://doi.org/10.1068/a130899K. V. Nagarajan Benefit-Cost Methodology for Evaluating Peak-Load Pricing System Implementation for Electricity Rates, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 10, no.99 (Sep 1980): 541–547.https://doi.org/10.1109/TSMC.1980.4308558Syed M. Ahsan The Marglin-McFadden-Mishan debate on public investment criteria, European Economic Review 14, no.22 (Jan 1980): 133–144.https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-2921(80)90015-XJohn H. Noble The Limits of Cost-Benefit Analysis as a Guide to Priority-Setting in Rehabilitation, Evaluation Quarterly 1, no.33 (Sep 2016): 347–380.https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X7700100301ROBIN POPE THE COSTING OF PUBLIC FUNDS REVISITED*, Australian Economic Papers 15, no.2626 (Jun 1976): 37–51.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8454.1976.tb00491.xRONALD E. GRIESON ON THE OPTIMAL LEVEL OF TAXATION, BORROWING, AND GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES, National Tax Journal 28, no.22 (Mar 2021): 251–253.https://doi.org/10.1086/NTJ41862057 Daniel McFadden Criteria for Public Investment: Comment, Journal of Political Economy 80, no.66 (Oct 2015): 1295–1313.https://doi.org/10.1086/259973 Edward J. Mishan Criteria for Public Investment: Reply, Journal of Political Economy 80, no.66 (Oct 2015): 1314–1316.https://doi.org/10.1086/259974Harold M. Somers ON THE DEMISE OF THE SOCIAL DISCOUNT RATE, The Journal of Finance 26, no.22 (Apr 2012): 565–578.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.1971.tb00915.x William H. Oakland Criteria for Public Investment: A Comment, Journal of Political Economy 78, no.11 (Oct 2015): 175–177.https://doi.org/10.1086/259617 E. J. Mishan Criteria for Public Investment: A Reply, Journal of Political Economy 78, no.11 (Oct 2015): 178–180.https://doi.org/10.1086/259618 Bibliography, (Jan 1970): 185–194.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-016163-1.50016-3