The role of cost utility analysis in program budgeting

Gene Fisher

ResearchPublished 1964

This Memorandum outlines the main characteristics of cost-utility analysis, and the major considerations involved in carrying it out. Two examples are given: the long-endurance aircraft systems study and a 1953 water resource project proposal. (Chap. 3 in D. Novick (ed.), Program Budgeting, Harvard University Press, 1965.)

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Fisher, Gene, The role of cost utility analysis in program budgeting. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1964. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM4279.html.
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