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All this debate about NATA misses the point – appraisal is built on pseudo-science

Steve Melia, University of the West of England
20 August 2010
Steve Melia is co-ordinator of Carfree UK and a senior lecturer in transport and planning at the University of the West of England.
Steve Melia is co-ordinator of Carfree UK and a senior lecturer in transport and planning at the University of the West of England.

 

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist,” wrote JM Keynes in 1935. I was reminded of this when reading that the new Government is planning another review of transport appraisal guidance, citing concerns over its inherent bias against low-carbon proposals. Welcome though these changes may be, the review starts from the flawed assumption that Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) is an objective...

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