He wants less talk of lunar landings, and more analysis of costs and benefits.
Further investment decisions should be based on a robust analysis of costs, police force requirements, and their ability to use new technology effectively.
In each case conventional economic analysis of costs and benefits has been brushed aside, in favor of guesses about the effects of policy on technological innovation.
The Cabinet Office should also develop a comprehensive analysis of costs, benefits and risks, to guide future decisions on what data to make available.
They are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their analysis of costs and now use life-cycle cost instead of cost on delivery for some purchases, giving U.S. products an opportunity to beat cheaply made competitors.
The study's authors -- Edward L. Glaeser of Harvard and Joseph Gyourko of the University of Pennsylvania -- concluded, by a mathematical analysis of costs, that government regulations were a form of tax.
The National Audit Office has criticised Jeremy Hunt's plan to cut bodies such as the UK Film Council, after finding that a hasty decision-making process led to a failure to carry out a reliable financial analysis of costs and savings.
Allowing agencies like mine to avoid rigorous analysis of costs and benefits of their proposals (economic and otherwise) — including a second look at such analyses by OIRA — shortchanges the American people.
Comparison of clinical effectiveness of two treatment modalities would be incomplete without the analysis of costs.
Economic analysis of costs and benefits can be done for decision making on using nanoparticle additives for possible field applications.
However, when challenged by the committee, he admitted that there was no detailed analysis of costs behind the 6% figure.
