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The 65 pages that link to Cost–benefit analysis, each with the reason it gives.

• Environmental justiceCompared with: Aggregate gains can conceal who bears the costs and whether affected communities had a say.

• UtilitarianismRelated: It translates welfare comparisons into a practical tool for evaluating public policies.

• Risk assessmentCompared with: Unlike risk assessment, it evaluates trade-offs among consequences and interventions.

• Opportunity costRelated: Its cost estimates should include valuable alternatives displaced by the decision.

• Precautionary principleCompared with: It often demands quantified trade-offs where precaution can prioritize avoiding severe uncertain harm.

• Pareto efficiencyRelated: Its compensation test often invokes Kaldor–Hicks gains rather than strict Pareto improvement.

• ConsequentialismRelated: It translates projected consequences into a practical tool for policy choices.

• Consumer surplusRelated: Consumer surplus can help quantify benefits consumers receive from a policy or market change.

• Welfare economicsRelated: It translates potential compensation into a practical test for evaluating public projects.

• UtilityRelated: Policy analysis may use money as a proxy rather than directly compare individual utilities.

• Decision theoryRelated: It turns competing consequences into a structured basis for public choices.

• High-speed railRelated: High-speed projects require weighing travel-time savings against construction and operating costs.

• Olympic legacyRelated: Its assumptions determine how Olympic bids present projected gains against public spending.

• Social welfare functionRelated: It often operationalizes aggregate welfare through monetary valuations rather than direct utility comparisons.

• Marginal UtilityRelated: Marginal benefits help identify whether an additional unit of a policy or service is worth its cost.

• Decision-makingRelated: It supports public and organizational choices involving competing consequences.

• Special economic zoneRelated: It helps assess whether incentives, infrastructure, and foregone revenue produce net public gains.

• Cost-effectiveness analysisCompared with: Unlike cost-effectiveness analysis, it assigns monetary values to health outcomes.

• Marginal costRelated: Incremental costs help evaluate whether an additional activity is worth undertaking.

• Environmental economicsRelated: Environmental policies often use it to weigh damages avoided against resources spent.

• Expected utility hypothesisRelated: Expected utility supplies a framework for evaluating uncertain policy outcomes.

• Discount rateRelated: Public evaluations discount future effects to compare them with present costs.

• Technology assessmentCompared with: Unlike broad assessment, it centers commensurable economic effects.

• Willingness to payRelated: Willingness-to-pay estimates can monetize benefits that lack observable market prices.

• Beach nourishmentRelated: It weighs nourishment expenses against avoided damages, recreation benefits, and recurring maintenance needs.

• Combined sewerRelated: Cities use it to weigh costly sewer upgrades against pollution and public-health gains.

• Time value of moneyRelated: Discounting places costs and benefits occurring at different times on a common basis.

• Health economicsCompared with: Unlike health-outcome measures, it can compare healthcare with uses of funds outside health.

• Policy analysisRelated: It offers one explicit way to compare options with unlike effects.

• RAND CorporationRelated: RAND analysis often weighs the trade-offs among competing policy options.

• Social cost of carbonRelated: The estimate lets analysts count avoided climate damages among a policy’s benefits.

• First welfare theoremRelated: The theorem motivates efficiency comparisons while highlighting the assumptions such evaluations require.

• Infrastructure investmentRelated: It tests whether an infrastructure proposal's wider gains justify its costs.

• Marginal analysisRelated: It applies incremental comparisons to policies and projects, often including nonmarket effects.

• Sunk costRelated: A forward-looking analysis excludes sunk costs while weighing consequences that can still change.

• Transportation planningRelated: It provides one framework for comparing competing transport investments.

• Allocative efficiencyRelated: Policy analysis uses it to estimate whether reallocating resources raises aggregate welfare.

• Economic efficiencyRelated: It is widely used to estimate whether a policy's aggregate gains justify its resource costs.

• Financial return on investmentRelated: It broadens ROI-style comparison to include benefits and costs beyond investment returns.

• Kaldor–Hicks efficiencyRelated: It often treats a policy as desirable when benefits exceed costs, even without actual compensation.

• Air pollution controlRelated: It is used to assess the economic case for emission-control requirements.

• Econometric modelRelated: Estimated behavioral responses help quantify the consequences of policies and projects.

• Arthur Cecil PigouRelated: Evaluating corrective policies requires estimating their effects on social welfare.

• Bohai StraitRelated: The tunnel’s high construction cost must be weighed against travel and freight savings.

• COVID-19 lockdownsRelated: Evaluations must weigh lives and health protected against economic and social harms.

• Transit equityCompared with: Aggregate net benefits can favor projects that yield high totals while leaving disadvantaged communities worse off.

• Act utilitarianismRelated: It resembles utilitarian reasoning when consequences are translated into comparable measures.

• Applied scienceRelated: It helps assess whether a proposed scientific solution justifies its costs.

• Economics of educationRelated: It helps assess whether education programs justify the resources they consume.

• Happiness economicsRelated: Well-being valuations can broaden its accounting beyond market transactions.