质量决策的质量科学:维护效益-成本分析的科学完整性

IF 7.8 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI:10.1086/715623

A. McGartland

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摘要

效益成本分析(BCA)为监管决策提供了重要的科学依据。理想情况下，BCA应该以科学为基础，包括经济学。然而，BCA在政策制定过程中的突出作用也激励人们采用能够产生支持首选政策的结果的实践。事实上，BCA不是为决策提供信息，而是可以成为一种工具，为通过与良好科学相反的方式操纵结果而做出的决策辩护。本文确定了威胁BCA科学完整性的两个挑战，因为它们允许规范性和政策判断进入BCA。文章最后确定了有助于保护BCA科学完整性的行动。

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Quality Science for Quality Decisions: Protecting the Scientific Integrity of Benefit–Cost Analysis

Benefit–cost analysis (BCA) provides important science to inform regulatory decision-making. Ideally, the BCA should be based on science, including economics. However, the prominent role of BCA in the policy-making process also creates an incentive to adopt practices that produce results that support a preferred policy. Indeed, rather than informing decision-making, BCA can become a tool for justifying a decision that is made by manipulating results in ways contrary to good science. This article identifies two challenges that threaten the scientific integrity of a BCA because they allow normative and policy judgments to enter into the BCA. The article concludes by identifying actions to help protect the scientific integrity of BCA.

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期刊介绍： The Review of Environmental Economics and Policy fills the gap between traditional academic journals and the general interest press by providing a widely accessible yet scholarly source for the latest thinking on environmental economics and related policy. The Review publishes symposia, articles, and regular features that contribute to one or more of the following goals: •to identify and synthesize lessons learned from recent and ongoing environmental economics research; •to provide economic analysis of environmental policy issues; •to promote the sharing of ideas and perspectives among the various sub-fields of environmental economics;