How to regulate : a guide for policymakers / Thomas A. Lambert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambert, Thomas, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Administrative regulation drafting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Markets sometimes fail. But so do regulatory efforts to correct market failures. Sometimes regulations reach too far, condemning good activities as well as bad, and sometimes they don't reach far enough, allowing bad behavior to persist. In this highly instructive book, Thomas A. Lambert explains the pitfalls of both extremes while offering readers a manual of effective regulation, showing how the best regulation maximizes social welfare and minimizes social costs. Working like a physician, Lambert demonstrates how regulators should diagnose the underlying disease and identify its symptoms, potential remedies for it, and their side effects before selecting the regulation that offers the greatest net benefit. This book should be read by policymakers, students, and anyone else interested in understanding how the best regulations are crafted and why they work.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Aug 2017).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781316534885

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.