Retaking Rationality
Subtitle: How Cost Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: March 17, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780195368574
Subjects: Environmental; Political Advocacy; Public Affairs & Administration; Law / Environmental; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Cost effectiveness; Environmental law; Public health laws; Trade regulation; United States
Description: "Retaking Rationality argues that environmentalists and other progressive groups, by rejecting the economic analysis of regulation, have allowed industry groups and conservative intellectuals to convince the public that strong environmental, public health, and safety regulation is bad economic policy. The truth is that economic analysis - conducted in an unbiased manner - will often support strong regulation. That truth is hidden because, as currently conducted, economic analysis is strongly biased against regulation." "Written in a clear and non-technical manner, Retaking Rationality gives progressive groups and the public the tools they need both to understand and to engage in the debate over the economic analysis of environmental, public health, and safety regulation."--Jacket.