01250pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002100040245004500061260000900106300001500115362001100130520091500141650002601056773003401082180718b2001   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aDove, Michael R.  aAcademic relations of production and CBA  c2001  ap.1855-858  a26 May  aThis paper begins with a discussion of three brief examples of the application versus non-application of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) or CBA-type approaches: the author's own early work on the comparative economics of community resource-use in south-east Asia; Michael Cernea's recent analysis of World Bank studies of resettlement; and thirdly, the ongoing debate in the US about national environmental accounting.  The author examines the patern of inter-disciplinary relations that is revealed in these examples, focusing on issues of differential inter-disciplinary prestige, inter-disciplinary borrowing, and the maturation cycles of inter-disciplinary fields.  It conclude; with an examination, through parodies of CBA, of how emotional responses to boundary-crossing have led towards a partial and flawed vision of CBA and highlights the need to simultaneously both use and problematise CBA. - Reproduced  aCost benefit analysis  aEconomic and Political Weekly