TY  - BOOK
AU  - Revesz,Richard L.
AU  - Livermore,Michael A.
TI  - Retaking rationality: how cost-benefit analysis can better protect the environment and our health 
SN  - 9780195368574 (hbk.) :
AV  - HD3616.U47 R486 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Oxford, UK, New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Trade regulation
KW  - United States
KW  - Cost effectiveness
KW  - Environmental law
KW  - Public health laws
KW  - Administrative agencies
KW  - Decision making
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-236) and index; Prologue: Reason and Compassion -- Pt. I. Decisions Are Made by Those Who Show Up -- The Case for Cost-Benefit Analysis -- The Walls Go Up -- Missed Opportunities -- Winning the Good Fight (Sometimes) -- Pt. II. Eight Fallacies of Cost-Benefit Analysis -- Fallacy 1: All Unintended Consequences Are Bad -- Fallacy 2: Wealth Equals Health -- Fallacy 3: Older People Are Less Valuable -- Fallacy 4: People Cannot Adapt -- Fallacy 5: People Always Want to Put Off Bad Things -- Fallacy 6: We Are Worth More than Our Children -- Fallacy 7: People Value Only What They Use -- Fallacy 8: Industry Cannot Adapt -- The Sum of All the Fallacies -- Pt. III. Instituting Regulatory Rationality -- Regulatory Hurdles -- Shaky Foundation -- Rethinking OIRA -- Balancing the Scales -- Epilogue: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
ER  -