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  • Johnson says that it's all about the results of what he called "cost-benefit analysis" and, ever the pragmatist, he says that if it's not working, change it.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Those with present biases don’t use contingency or probabilistic thinking, don’t engage in long-term cost-benefit analyses, and are likely to affiliate with others who deal with decisions in the same way—“Just do it!”

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • Those with present biases don’t use contingency or probabilistic thinking, don’t engage in long-term cost-benefit analyses, and are likely to affiliate with others who deal with decisions in the same way—“Just do it!”

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • Those with present biases don’t use contingency or probabilistic thinking, don’t engage in long-term cost-benefit analyses, and are likely to affiliate with others who deal with decisions in the same way—“Just do it!”

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • Those with present biases don’t use contingency or probabilistic thinking, don’t engage in long-term cost-benefit analyses, and are likely to affiliate with others who deal with decisions in the same way—“Just do it!”

    The Time Paradox Philip Zimbardo 2008

  • Don't as me where I read it, but somewhere on the Internet the risk/cost-benefit study has already been completed.

    Asteroid Threat Conference Underway - NASA Watch 2009

  • They have all these laws saying you're supposed to do cost-benefit analysis.

    FAIR Thee Well? 2011

  • Our National Institute for Clinical Excellence NICE, a typically Blairite acronym has done cost-benefit analyses of drugs and procedures, often very sensibly, for years.

    New Efficiencies in Health Care? Not Likely Theodore Dalrymple 2011

  • During the hearing, the EPA released a report that said that the cost-benefit of enacting the 1990 Clean Air Act under former president George H.W. Bush would reach about $2 trillion in 2020.

    EPA: Proposed House budget cuts would harm public health 2011

  • They have all these laws saying you're supposed to do cost-benefit analysis.

    FAIR Thee Well? 2011

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