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Retaking rationality : how cost-benefit analysis can better protect the environment and our health / Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore.
Lippincott Library HD3616.U47 R486 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Revesz, Richard L., 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trade regulation--United States--Cost effectiveness.
- Trade regulation.
- Environmental law--United States--Cost effectiveness.
- Environmental law.
- Public health laws--United States--Cost effectiveness.
- Public health laws.
- Administrative agencies--United States--Decision making.
- Administrative agencies.
- Decision making.
- Cost effectiveness.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 254 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Reason and Compassion 1
- Part I Decisions Are Made by Those Who Show Up
- The Case for Cost-Benefit Analysis 9
- The Walls Go Up 21
- Missed Opportunities 31
- Winning the Good Fight (Sometimes) 47
- Part II Eight Fallacies of Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Fallacy 1 All Unintended Consequences Are Bad 55
- Fallacy 2 Wealth Equals Health 67
- Fallacy 3 Older People Are Less Valuable 77
- Fallacy 4 People Cannot Adapt 85
- Fallacy 5 People Always Want to Put Off Bad Things 95
- Fallacy 6 We Are Worth More than Our Children 107
- Fallacy 7 People Value Only What They Use 119
- Fallacy 8 Industry Cannot Adapt 131
- The Sum of All the Fallacies 145
- Part III Instituting Regulatory Rationality
- Regulatory Hurdles 151
- Shaky Foundation 163
- Rethinking OIRA 171
- Balancing the Scales 185
- Epilogue: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies 191.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-236) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195368574
- 0195368576
- OCLC:
- 173683799
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