Economics 581

Cost Benefit Analysis


January 2011

Professor W. Erwin Diewert

Office:  BuTo 1009
Email:  diewert@econ.ubc.ca


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Reading List (.pdf)   

Chapter 1 (.pdf) - Lecture Notes on Cost Benefit Analysis       
Chapter 2 (.pdf) - Inequalities      
Chapter 3 (.pdf) - Convex Sets And Concave Functions
Chapter 4 (.pdf) - Microeconomic Theory: A Dual Approach
Chapter 5 (.pdf) - General Equilibrium Models: A Dual Approach
Chapter 6 (.pdf) - Consumer Surplus and the Measurement of Ex Post Welfare Change
Chapter 7 (.pdf) - Project Evaluation and Willingness to Pay
Chapter 8 (.pdf) - Nonlinear Programming: The Saddle Point Approach and the Kuhn-Tucker Conditions
Chapter 9 (.pdf) - The Measurement of Waste and Marginal Excess Burdens

Math for Economists
Chapter 1 (.pdf) - Elementary Calculas
Chapter 2 (.pdf) - Elementary Matrix Algebra
Chapter 3 (.pdf) - Unconstrained Optimization



Revised: March 2011