“The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.” WayFirstsSchoolTechnologyStudentsInternetEasierCostBenefitsPressesAnalysisPrintingGreat EducationPrinting PressCost Benefit Analysis Author:John Katzman
“Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.” ShouldWellsPolicyCostBenefitsAnalysisCost Benefit Analysis Author:Vicky Hartzler
“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.” WantGivingKindMeanHas BeensGovernmentWaterDecisionWiseEffectsDevelopmentCostBenefitsProjectsThreatEnvironmentalAnalysisJustifyEngineersEconomistRelianceExclusiveRespectableWise Decision Author:Gilbert F. White
“[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.” InformationCostBenefitsConsequenceDoctrineAnalysisIgnoredChapelTaj MahalSistine ChapelMahalCost Benefit Analysis Author:Antonin Scalia
“My analysis, especially of the computer revolution, always comes back to capitalism. It's that economic system that has led to Western civilization's willingness to enslave ourselves to machines - because some people benefit enormously from it, while the costs are borne by other people and the planet.” PeopleEconomicPlanetsRevolutionCivilizationCostBenefitsComputerCapitalismMachinesWesternAnalysisWillingnessWestern CivilizationEconomic Systems Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“Because I am so intensely identified with opinion and analysis and contextualization, I think I just need, for my own psychological benefit, a small island in which I can stand and say, 'I'm going to sit this one out.'” ThinkingNeedsI CanMy OwnOpinionBenefitsPsychologicalAnalysisIslands Author:Keith Olbermann
“Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those” NeedsInterestStudyIndustryCostBenefitsImpactFinanceAnalysisGamblingEconomistCost Benefit Analysis Author:John Warren Kindt
“The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.” TwoPlayLiteratureAbilityPlayerBenefitsChessAnalysisBoardsDozenChess Players Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the long run.” LittlesLongDoeRunningNatureCostBenefitsDebtAnalysisExpertsLong RunsAccountingCost Benefit Analysis Book:Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth Source: Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth