Retaking rationality [[electronic resource] ] : how cost-benefit analysis can better protect the environment and our health / / Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore
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Revesz Richard L. <1958->
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Retaking rationality [[electronic resource] ] : how cost-benefit analysis can better protect the environment and our health / / Richard L. Revesz, Michael A. Livermore
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (457 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.60973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Trade regulation - United States - Cost effectiveness |
| Environmental law - United States - Cost effectiveness | |
| Public health laws - United States - Cost effectiveness | |
| Administrative agencies - United States - Decision making | |
| Altri autori: |
LivermoreMichael A
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Decisions are made by those who show up -- pt. 2. Eight fallacies of cost-benefit analysis -- pt. 3. Instituting regulatory rationality. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any shortage of reasons why-short-sighted politicians, a society built on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental regulations. In Retaking Rationality, Richard Revesz and Michael Livermore argue convincingly that one of the least understood-and most important-causes of our failure to protect the environment has been a misguided rejection of reason. The authors show that environmentalists, labor unions, and other progressive groups have declined t |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Retaking rationality |
| ISBN: | 0-19-759265-1 |
| 1-283-13007-6 | |
| 9786613130075 | |
| 0-19-970947-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910789443803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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