Retaking rationality : how cost-benefit analysis can better protect the environment and our health / Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Revesz, Richard L., 1958- author.

Livermore, Michael A., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (457 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any shortage of reasons why - short-sighted politicians, a society built on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental regulations. In 'Retaking Rationality', Richard Revesz and Michael Livermore argue convincingly that one of the least understood - and most important - causes of our failure to protect the environment has been a misguided rejection of reason. The authors show that environmentalists, labour unions, and other progressive groups have declined to participate in the key governmental proceedings concerning the cost-benefit analysis of federal regulations.

Contents:

pt. 1. Decisions are made by those who show up

pt. 2. Eight fallacies of cost-benefit analysis

pt. 3. Instituting regulatory rationality.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-759265-1

1-283-13007-6

9786613130075

0-19-970947-5

OCLC:

729244824