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Social Costs and the Measurement

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Concerning social costs, in Japan, many disputants have already argued, so the terminology of social costs has been used generally.,

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  1. 1.

    Ois hi [11, 12], U zawa [18, 19], and Na kamura [8].

  2. 2.

    W. Mich alski [7], On oue and Iio [17], etc.

  3. 3.

    Hisao Onoue a nd Kaname Iio [17]; W. Michalski [7].

  4. 4.

    Let me introduce an anecdote showing the celebrity of Prof. H. Uzawa. When I was sent to attend the 11th World Congress of International Economics Association (IEA) held at Tunis, Republic of Tunisia, on December 1995, by the Science Council of Japan, I met an infrequent phenomenon; there was a large attendance beyond expectation to Prof. Uzawa’s session; the room for the session changed in a hurry to the larger one, but the 2nd room could not yet accommodate the listeners, so the lecture room was changed again to the largest one. This happening shows how prominent Prof. Uzawa is, especially to younger associate professors and postdoctorate audiences.

  5. 5.

    Here, what is O kano group? It was a tentative group who had done the study and measurement of social costs, under the l eadership of Prof. Genpachiro Konno and Prof. Yasuhiko Oishi at the Japan Transport Policy Research Office, whose members consisted of Yukihide Okano, high government official from the Ministry of Construction , researcher from the Japan Highway Public Corporation , Hirotada Kohno, and Katsuyuki Ku rashimo, as being ascertained from the writer’s list (p. 301) of Treatise on Modern Automobile Transport [4].

  6. 6.

    The seven lines of making the process of every unit costs are omitted.

  7. 7.

    At this point, the explanation of 18 lines about the calculating formula is omitted.

  8. 8.

    The explanation of the formula for accumulating noise reduction costs equivalent to 17 lines is omitted.

  9. 9.

    The 20 lines of calculation process are omitted.

  10. 10.

    It = that.

  11. 11.

    There is the estimating process of running vehicle/kilometer by area, the 18 lines and table of which are omitted.

  12. 12.
    $$ 21,000\fallingdotseq 28,800-7520 $$
    $$ 34,000\fallingdotseq 41,700-7520 $$
    $$ 113,000\fallingdotseq 120,800-7520 $$
    $$ 203,000\fallingdotseq 210,100-7520. $$
  13. 13.
    $$ 12,000\fallingdotseq 41,700-30,237 $$
    $$ 4000\fallingdotseq \left(41,700 + 28,800 + 31,600\right)\hbox{--} \left(30,237\times 3\right) $$
    $$ 7520\fallingdotseq 61,899-54,379 $$
    $$ 30,237\fallingdotseq 74,121-43.884 $$

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Kohno, H. (2016). Social Costs and the Measurement. In: Economic Effects of Public Investment. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 1. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55224-6_6

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