A History of Cost-Effectiveness

Abstract

Cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis, together with systems analysis, policy analysis, operations research, management science and other decision disciplines, seek to provide advice, to help in making decisions. Cost-effectiveness attempts to do this by comparing various actions that might be taken in terms of their costs and their effectiveness in achieving a desired goal.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1971
Accession Number
AD0730430

Entities

People

  • E. S. Quade

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Budgets
  • California
  • Congress
  • Cost Benefit Analysis
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Costs
  • Economic Analysis
  • Economic Systems
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Flood Control
  • Governments
  • Investments
  • Materials
  • Money
  • Operations Research
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis