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Robert J. Brent is Professor of Economics Emeritus at Fordham University in New York specializing in Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA).

He has been at Fordham since 1980, except for periods of leave. He has also lived and worked at Universities in the US, UK and Africa, and was Coordinator of the Strategic Planning and Governance Program at the Asian Development Bank Institute in Tokyo in 1998. He had a Fulbright Scholar Award in 2003 to carry out CBAs of HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs in Tanzania. In 2010 – 2011, he chaired the European Union’s Scientific Committee related to EU Cohesion Policy. In 2011, he was a participant of the Copenhagen Consensus Project on HIV/AIDS and was commissioned to write the Guidelines for CBAs of social projects at the Inter-American Development Bank.

Poppular Editions

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Dementia: New Interventions

This ground-breaking book expertly brings together the many effective dementia interventions to reduce the symptoms of this debilitating condition and also...

Setting Priorities for HIV/AIDS Interventions: A Cost–Benefit Approach

HIV/AIDS is much too complex a phenomenon to be understood only by reference to common sense and ethical codes.

Applied Cost–Benefit Analysis, Second Edition

This fully updated new edition continues in the vein of its predecessor by viewing cost-benefit analysis as applied welfare economics,