Author: Kenneth Joseph Arrow
Publisher: A E I Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This primer highlights both the strengths and the limitations of benefit-cost analysis in the development, design, and implementation of regulatory reform.
Benefit-cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation
Author: Kenneth Joseph Arrow
Publisher: A E I Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This primer highlights both the strengths and the limitations of benefit-cost analysis in the development, design, and implementation of regulatory reform.
Publisher: A E I Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This primer highlights both the strengths and the limitations of benefit-cost analysis in the development, design, and implementation of regulatory reform.
Benefits of Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Policy Alternatives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental health
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental health
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Retaking Rationality
Author: Richard L. Revesz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195368576
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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 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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195368576
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
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 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.
The Benefits of Health and Safety Regulation
Author: Allen R. Ferguson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Valuing Health for Regulatory Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309100771
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Promoting 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.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309100771
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Promoting 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.
Environmental Policy Under Reagan's Executive Order
Author: V. Kerry Smith
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807836591
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
For the first time, a formal benefit-cost requirement plays an integral role in U.S. environmental policymaking, and in this volume, some of the nation's leading experts on environmental policy appraise the effects of President Reagan's Executive Order No. 12291. By considering how the Environmental Protection Agency has responded to 12291, these essays identify the limitations of conventional practices of benefit-cost analysis. Originally published in 1984. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807836591
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
For the first time, a formal benefit-cost requirement plays an integral role in U.S. environmental policymaking, and in this volume, some of the nation's leading experts on environmental policy appraise the effects of President Reagan's Executive Order No. 12291. By considering how the Environmental Protection Agency has responded to 12291, these essays identify the limitations of conventional practices of benefit-cost analysis. Originally published in 1984. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The Cost-benefit State
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590310540
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This 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.
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781590310540
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This 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.
The Costs and Benefits of Environmental Regulation
Author: Imad A. Moosa
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1782549242
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
øThe authors present an extensive survey of the empirical evidence on the determinants of environmental performance as well as the effects of environmental regulation on the costs of production, plant location, firm-level productivity, stock prices and
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1782549242
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
øThe authors present an extensive survey of the empirical evidence on the determinants of environmental performance as well as the effects of environmental regulation on the costs of production, plant location, firm-level productivity, stock prices and
The Globalization of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy
Author: Michael A. Livermore
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019993438X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This 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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019993438X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
This 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.
Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulation
Author: John Charles Daly
Publisher: A E I Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher: A E I Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description