Research Catalog

Title

After the rights revolution : reconceiving the regulatory state / Cass R. Sunstein.

Author

Sunstein, Cass R.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1990.

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Description

x, 284 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Administrative law > United States
• Industrial laws and legislation > United States
• Social legislation > United States

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-273).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Regulation and interpretation -- The anarchronistic legal culture -- 1. Why regulation? -- A historical overview -- Public and private ordering -- 2. The functions of regulatory statutes -- Market failures -- Public-interested redistribution -- Collective desires and aspirations -- Diverse experiences and preference formation -- Social subordination -- Endogenous preferences -- Irreversibility, future generations, animals, and nature -- Interest-group transfers and "rent-seeking" -- The problem of categorization -- 3. How regulation fails -- Failures in the original statute -- Implementation failure -- Linking statutory function to statutory failure -- Paradoxes of the regulatory state -- and reform -- 4. Courts, interpretation, and norms -- Flawed approaches to statutory interpretation -- Interpretive principles -- An alternative method -- 5. Interpretive principles for the regulatory state -- The principles -- Priority and harmonization -- Fissures in the interpretive community -- -- The postcanonical legal universe -- 6. Applications, the new deal, and statutory construction -- Particulars -- The new deal and statutory construction -- Conclusion -- The Constitution and the Regulatory State -- and its reform -- Interpreting the Regulatory State -- Appendix A. Interpretive principles -- Appendix B. Selected regulations in terms of cost per life saved -- Appendix C. The growth of administrative government -- Notes -- Index

ISBN

0674009088 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^89078254^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library