Main menu For students For teachers Explore our subjects Student events & courses

Explore

More for students
Sign in

Teaching Economics

Blog

Government spending and Cost Benefit Analysis - the bottom line

Penny Brooks

18th May 2011

Share this content:

Thought-provoking quotation from astronaut Alan Shepard, who became the first American in space in 1961:

“It’s a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realise that one’s safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.”

Share this content:

Penny Brooks

Formerly Head of Business and Economics and now Economics teacher, Business and Economics blogger and presenter for Tutor2u, and private tutor

You might also like

Ending Peruvian Poverty

8th October 2015

Global Goals are set to address poverty and underdevelopment

6th October 2015

Dissecting the Commodity Price Meltdown

5th October 2015

Uber faces UK regulatory review

2nd October 2015

How do you deal with someone who thinks the Earth is flat?

23rd September 2015

Don't panic - how to end poverty!

23rd September 2015

Teaching PowerPoints for A Level Economics

23rd September 2015

John McDonnell's Economics

16th September 2015