Valuing Life : Humanizing the Regulatory State /

The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the United States's regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the Administrator of OIRA from 2009 to 2012 to argue that we can humanize regulation-and save lives in the proce...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sunstein, Cass R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]
Temas:
Administrative agencies > Social aspects > United States.
Administrative agencies > Social aspects > United States.
Administrative procedure > Social aspects > United States.
Administrative procedure > Social aspects > United States.
United States. > Office of Management and Budget. > Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
LAW / General.
regulation, government, oira, education, environmental protection, energy, immigration, homeland security, health care, highway safety, personal privacy, dignity, life, fear, psychology, economics, policy, law, administrative agencies, nonfiction, politics, political science, administration, respect, value, bureaucracy, state power, cost benefit analysis.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Franklin's Algebra
  • ONE. Inside Government
  • TWO. Human Consequences, or Th e Real World of Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • THREE. Dignity, Financial Meltdown, and Other Nonquantifiable Things
  • FOUR. Valuing Life, 1: Problems
  • FIVE. Valuing Life, 2: Solutions
  • SIX. The Morality of Risk
  • SEVEN. What Scares Us
  • EPILOGUE. Four Ways to Humanize the Regulatory State
  • APPENDIX A. Executive Order 13563 of January 18, 2011
  • APPENDIX B. The Social Cost of Carbon
  • APPENDIX C. Estimated Benefits and Costs of Selected Federal Regulations
  • APPENDIX D. Selected Examples of Breakeven Analysis
  • APPENDIX E. Values for Mortality and Morbidity
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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