Which is what the results of cost benefit analyses enable us to do.

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Which makes one wonder: where are all the economists, wringing their hands over cost-benefit analyses of these defense expenditures?

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Mr. Bush's first administrator, John Graham, championed cost-benefit analyses of regulations.

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Convincing store owners to pay more initially might be easier, since they tend to do more long-term, cost-and-benefit analyses of their investments.

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Previous analyses suggest that would drive up the cost of the traditional plan, making it--and any accompanying drug coverage--increasingly expensive for those who need it most.

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Britain and Germany are pioneering comparative reviews of drugs' effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses aimed at reimbursing firms for new drugs based on how well they perform.

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It should undermine the cocky assurance of anyone who claims that current cost-benefit analyses set prices rationally or compassionately.

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We should require rent-seeking analysis of each major regulation alongside the still rarely done cost-benefit analyses.

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Whatever cost-benefit analyses are presented to them, the public, or at least that vocal section of it whose cries for law and order make penal reform electoral suicide, resent this expenditure.

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