One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.


Geography, Resources and Environment, Volume 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White (ed. University of Chicago Press, 1986) - ISBN: 9780226425740

Gilbert F. White Quotes

One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national...

One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national...

One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national...

One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national...