This is my third post on Joseph Heath’s The Machinery of Government: Public Administration and the Liberal State (OUP, 2020). [The first one is here; the second here.] In both earlier posts I indicated that I consider the lengthy, (fifth) chapter “On Cost-Benefit Analysis as an Expression of Liberal Neutrality” a masterpiece of exposition and analysis. …
On the limits of Cost Benefit Analysis in Heath's Philosophy of the Executive, pt 3
