Consumer safety regulation : putting a price on life and limb / / Peter Asch
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| Autore: |
Asch Peter
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| Titolo: |
Consumer safety regulation : putting a price on life and limb / / Peter Asch
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1988 |
| ©1988 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (183 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 343.73/071 |
| Soggetto topico: | Consumer protection - Law and legislation - United States |
| Consumer protection - Economic aspects - United States | |
| Consumer protection - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 1. Consumer Safety: The Basic Issues; 2. The Institutional Setting: An Overview of Consumer Safety Policies in the United States and Great Britain; 3. Why Public Protection: Traditional Economic Arguments; 4. Why Public Protection: Nontraditional and ""Noneconomic"" Arguments; 5. The Analytics of Misperception; 6. Policy Formulation in the Major Regulatory Agencies; 7. Policy Evaluations: The Evidence; 8. Consumer Safety Regulation and Consumer Welfare; Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An examination of the current debate in the US between those who argue that unregulated private markets will impose unacceptable risks on the public, and those who argue that government safety regulations infringe freedom. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Consumer safety regulation |
| ISBN: | 1-280-43998-X |
| 0-19-536420-1 | |
| 1-60129-658-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827097603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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