Regulation of Health, Safety and Environmental Quality and the Use of Cost-benefit Analysis
Author: Michael S. Baram
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 141
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Author: Michael S. Baram
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 141
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kenneth Joseph Arrow
Publisher: A E I Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis primer highlights both the strengths and the limitations of benefit-cost analysis in the development, design, and implementation of regulatory reform.
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: American Bar Association
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781590310540
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses the current topic of Federal Government regulations increasingly assessed by asking whether the benefits of the regulation justifies the cost of the regulation.
Author: Richard L. Revesz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0195368576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThat 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 L. Revesz and Michael A. 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, labor unions, and other progressive groups have declined to participate in the key governmental proceedings concerning the cost-benefit analysis of federal regulations. As a result of this vacuum, industry groups have captured cost-benefit analysis and used it to further their anti-regulatory ends. Beginning in 1981, the federal Office of Management and Budget and the federal courts have used cost-benefit analysis extensively to determine which environmental, health, and safety regulations are approved and which are sent back to the drawing board. The resulting imbalance in political participation has profoundly affected the nation's regulatory and legal landscape. But Revesz and Livermore contend that economic analysis of regulations is necessary and that it needn't conflict with-and can in fact support-a more compassionate approach to environmental policy. Indeed, they show that we cannot give up on rationality if we truly want to protect our natural environment. Retaking Rationality makes clear that by embracing and reforming cost-benefit analysis, and by joining reason and compassion, progressive groups can help enact strong environmental and public health regulation.
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Policy Alternatives
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2006-01-30
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 926401005X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth assessment of the most recent conceptual and methodological developments in cost-benefit analysis and the environment.
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2006-05-28
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0309100771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPromoting human health and safety by reducing exposures to risks and harms through regulatory interventions is among the most important responsibilities of the government. Such efforts encompass a wide array of activities in many different contexts: improving air and water quality; safeguarding the food supply; reducing the risk of injury on the job, in transportation, and from consumer products; and minimizing exposure to toxic chemicals. Estimating the magnitude of the expected health and longevity benefits and reductions in mortality, morbidity, and injury risks helps policy makers decide whether particular interventions merit the expected costs associated with achieving these benefits and inform their choices among alternative strategies. Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis provides useful recommendations for how to measure health-related quality of- life impacts for diverse public health, safety, and environmental regulations. Public decision makers, regulatory analysts, scholars, and students in the field will find this an essential review text. It will become a standard reference for all government agencies and those consultants and contractors who support the work of regulatory programs.
Author: Michael A. Livermore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-02-21
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 019993438X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues in favor of using cost-benefit analysis globally and examines the positive impact it can have in developing countries using relevant case studies. The book discusses the potential for cost-benefit analysis to provoke a global shift toward stronger and more effective economic policies.
Author: Mark J. Green
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 198
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allen R. Ferguson
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 304
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