Retaking Rationality : How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health.

By: Revesz, Richard LContributor(s): Livermore, Michael AMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (263 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199709472Subject(s): Administrative agencies -- United States -- Decision making | Environmental law -- United States -- Cost effectiveness | Public health laws -- United States -- Cost effectiveness | Trade regulation -- United States -- Cost effectivenessGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Retaking Rationality : How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our HealthDDC classification: 320.60973 LOC classification: HD3616.U47 -- R486 2008ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Reason and Compassion -- PART I: Decisions Are Made by Those Who Show Up -- The Case for Cost-Benefit Analysis -- The Walls Go Up -- Missed Opportunities -- Winning the Good Fight (Sometimes) -- PART II: Eight Fallacies of Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Fallacy 1: All Unintended Consequences Are Bad -- Fallacy 2: Wealth Equals Health -- Fallacy 3: Older People Are Less Valuable -- Fallacy 4: People Cannot Adapt -- Fallacy 5: People Always Want to Put Off Bad Things -- Fallacy 6: We Are Worth More than Our Children -- Fallacy 7: People Value Only What They Use -- Fallacy 8: Industry Cannot Adapt -- The Sum of All the Fallacies -- PART III: Instituting Regulatory Rationality -- Regulatory Hurdles -- Shaky Foundation -- Rethinking OIRA -- Balancing the Scales -- Epilogue: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Written in a clear and non-technical manner, Retaking Rationality gives progressive groups and the public the tools they need both to understand and to engage in the debate over the economic analysis of environmental, public health, and safety regulation. Since the Reagan presidency, the most important regulations affecting every American have been required to pass a "cost-benefit" test, but most Americans-including many professionals working for progressive institutions or elected officials-do not understand how economic analysis works. The result is that industry and conservative ideologues have twisted economic analysis so that good regulations seem to fail the cost-benefit test. This book argues that the public, and progressive institutions, must take up the fight over how economic analysis is conducted, and gives them the knowledge they need to engage industry and conservatives about when and how economic analysis of regulation should be carried out.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Reason and Compassion -- PART I: Decisions Are Made by Those Who Show Up -- The Case for Cost-Benefit Analysis -- The Walls Go Up -- Missed Opportunities -- Winning the Good Fight (Sometimes) -- PART II: Eight Fallacies of Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Fallacy 1: All Unintended Consequences Are Bad -- Fallacy 2: Wealth Equals Health -- Fallacy 3: Older People Are Less Valuable -- Fallacy 4: People Cannot Adapt -- Fallacy 5: People Always Want to Put Off Bad Things -- Fallacy 6: We Are Worth More than Our Children -- Fallacy 7: People Value Only What They Use -- Fallacy 8: Industry Cannot Adapt -- The Sum of All the Fallacies -- PART III: Instituting Regulatory Rationality -- Regulatory Hurdles -- Shaky Foundation -- Rethinking OIRA -- Balancing the Scales -- Epilogue: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Written in a clear and non-technical manner, Retaking Rationality gives progressive groups and the public the tools they need both to understand and to engage in the debate over the economic analysis of environmental, public health, and safety regulation. Since the Reagan presidency, the most important regulations affecting every American have been required to pass a "cost-benefit" test, but most Americans-including many professionals working for progressive institutions or elected officials-do not understand how economic analysis works. The result is that industry and conservative ideologues have twisted economic analysis so that good regulations seem to fail the cost-benefit test. This book argues that the public, and progressive institutions, must take up the fight over how economic analysis is conducted, and gives them the knowledge they need to engage industry and conservatives about when and how economic analysis of regulation should be carried out.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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