Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Executive summary
  • Introduction
  • The making of cruel choices / Milton Russell
  • The politics of benefit-cost analysis / R. Shep Melnick
  • Benefit-cost analysis as a source of information about welfare / Peter Railton
  • Comparing values in environmental policies: moral issues and moral arguments / Douglas E. MacLean
  • Environmental policy making: act now or wait for more information? /Jeffrey E. Harris
  • Choice under uncertainty: problems solved and unsolved / Mark J. Machina
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix. Setting national standards for inorganic arsenic emissions from primary copper smelters: a case study / Ralph A. Luken.