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Rethinking consumer protection : escaping death by regulation / Thomas Tacker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tacker, Tom.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumer protection.
- Consumer protection--Law and legislation.
- Consumers.
- Consumer Advocacy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Consumer Advocacy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2019.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : LEXINGTON Books, 2019.
- Summary:
- This book explains how revamped consumer protection regulations, allowing greater individual choice, along with the government partially shifting to more of an advisory role, can save many thousands of lives annually, and make medicines and other products radically cheaper. Major case studies include the FDA, TSA passenger screening, and Uber versus taxis.
- Contents:
- Economic foundations of morality and consumer well-being
- New medicines and our dangerous quest for certainty
- Saving lives with a better, safer FDA
- How Uber innovated to save lives and why taxis never did
- Business reality versus cultural perception
- Is air travel too safe, and do we need the TSA screening monopoly?
- Toward more safety, more choices, and better prices.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-176) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-9787-3041-1
- 1-4985-7742-3
- OCLC:
- 1114303384
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