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Retaking rationality : how cost-benefit analysis can better protect the environment and our health / Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore.
Publication details: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: viii, 254 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780195368574 (hbk.) :
- 0195368576 (hbk.) :
- HD3616.U47 R486 2008
Contents:
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.
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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.
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