The cost-benefit revolution

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Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.

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Full title :The cost-benefit revolution / Cass R. Sunstein.

Summary

Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):MIT Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, MA
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780262347259, 0262347253
oclc:on1048003609
LC Classification:KF5407
Dewey Decimal:361.60973

Preface : Against Expressivism -- Where we are -- Triumph of the technocrats -- A foreign language -- Willingness to pay and the value of life -- Welfare : the master value -- The knowledge problem -- Frontiers -- Moral commitments -- Mandatory labels -- The role of courts -- Privacy and national security -- Free speech -- Conclusion : Best-Laid Plans.

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Administrative law -- Cost effectivenes… Commerce -- Réglementation -- États-Unis Cost effectiveness -- Political aspects… Coût-efficacité -- Aspect politique -- … ECONOMICS/General POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy Public administration -- Decision making Public administration -- Decision makin… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Publi… Trade regulation -- Cost effectiveness Trade regulation -- Cost effectiveness.… United States