Discover how cost-benefit analysis helps determine project viability by balancing financial and intangible factors, its benefits, and limitations in decision-making.

The survey, which included responses from more than 1,800 employers, found about half will make cost-cutting changes to their health plans next year, an increase from 44% in 2024. Companies have ...

The social cost of carbon (SCC) quantifies the economic damage associated with emitting a ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Regulatory impact analyses from U.S. federal agencies utilize the ...

A large new global study of project performance over 86 years confirms that ingrained optimism bias results in forecast-based cost-benefit analyses "so misleading as to be worse than worthless," say ...

The Biden Administration is revising the rules for how agencies conduct cost-benefit analyses, and some CBA experts have expressed concerns. Earlier this year, President Biden issued an Executive ...

In our last issue, Steven Kelman of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government criticized cost-benefit analysis from the perspective not of economics but of ethical theory. He concluded that in health, ...

Under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the U.S. government has had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for national security regulations limiting investment, trade, and information ...

Our April issue includes a package of articles on the duplicity of economic modeling that misinforms policy debates and decisions. Seemingly neutral models often conceal ideological biases and use ...

From heavy workloads to a hectic holiday schedule, employees could use a break with benefits that help minimize their stress. "How can you offer benefits that provide stability, balance and a sense of ...