The Conceptualisation of Output and Cost-Benefit Evaluation for Leisure Facilities

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ID4142177
AuthorsMel Knapp (0000-0003-1427-0215, University of Kent), M R J Knapp (Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ, England), Roger Vickerman (0000-0003-4258-8474, University of Kent), R W Vickerman (Economics Board, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NZ, England)
Year1985
Volume17
Issue9
Pages1217-1229
Publication date1985-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a171217
OpenAlexW2015140529
LanguageEN
References cited5

Cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses have become widely used tools for the justification of leisure-related expenditures, but are based on a number of inadequate assumptions. The narrow conceptualisations both of outputs and of inputs, and an oversimplified production function linking them are the main problems. Participation is usually assumed to provide an adequate measure of output or benefit accruing to the participant, but it is a measure neither of demand nor of supply, and it ignores the individual-level production that is so characteristic of services. Inputs have previously been equated with resources, to the neglect of nonresource influences on output. An alternative 'production of welfare' approach is described, and its implications for cost-benefit evaluations-and for efficiency studies generally-are examined

Business · Economics · Environmental economics · Microeconomics · Neglect · Production function · Public economics · Welfare · Computer Science · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Housing Market and Economics · Psychology · Transportation Planning and Optimization

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