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Home Courses Technology Development and Impact Assessment Course materials Lectures 7. Cost Benefit Analysis

7. Cost Benefit Analysis

Course subject(s) 7. Cost Benefit Analysis

In this video Jan Jaap Bouma will discuss cost benefit analysis and valuation of project effects. He will do this by discussing the background, different categories of costs and benefits and the process of valuation.

In this last video of the lecture Behnam Taebi reflects on cost benefit analysis. He does this discussing the methods of ethics and how cost benefit analysis is grounded in ethical theory after which he will discuss severe philosophical problems of such an analysis.

7.Reflection_on_Cost_Benefit_Analysis_-_Taebi_-_16-04-2014_NMC

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