Research Catalog

Title

The cost-benefit state : the future of regulatory protection / by Cass R. Sunstein.

Author

Sunstein, Cass R.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, ABA, c2002.

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Additional Authors

American Bar Association. Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice

Description

xii, 199 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Air > Pollution > Law and legislation > Compliance costs. > United States
• Air > Pollution > Law and legislation > Cost effectiveness. > United States
• Law > United States > Compliance costs
• Law > United States > Cost effectiveness
• Cost effectiveness
• Industrial laws and legislation > United States > Cost effectiveness
• Trade regulation > United States > Cost effectiveness

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. From 1970s environmentalism to the cost-benefit state -- 2. Is cost-benefit analysis for everyone? -- 3. De minimis exceptions -- 4. The relevance of costs -- 5. Underlying considerations -- 6. Agency permission vs. agency requirements -- 7. Unsettled questions -- 8. The Clean Air Act : difficulties and problems -- 9. The Clean Air Act : costs and benefits -- 10. Revising national standards -- and the tyranny of the status quo -- 11. Law and policy -- 12. The role of courts -- 13. The role of Congress -- 14. Costs and benefits for everyone -- Appendix A. Cost benefit numbers for ozone and particulates -- Appendix B. Dose-response curves : what lawyers, judges, and citizens should know -- Appendix C. Cost-benefit guidelines from OMB.

ISBN

1590310543

LCCN

^^2002016394

OCLC

• 48940719
• SCSB-10183004

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library