Ask: On Economics

The root of the most infantile economic principle, "cost-benefit analysis" - something inherent in our past, current, and future government intervention into the economy by way of "controlling for us what we are incapable of controlling ourselves" - I beg the question, how worthy is such analysis when all alternatives are of ill conclusion, regardless of healthy or fortunate intent, and hardly work to reduce risk (the overall goal of the science of economics) at all?