Sophisticated Sabotage: The Intellectual Games Used to Subvert Responsible Regulation explores regulatory cost-benefit analysis, quantitative risk assessment, the monetization of intangible values, comparative risk assessment and cost-effectiveness analysis, and related sub-disciplines. By explaining the arguments advanced by supporters of these tools, and discussing contrary views through short excerpts from the literature, Sophisticated Sabotage describes how dubious risk assessment and economic models have come to dominate regulatory decisionmaking and now stymie urgently needed health, safety and environmental protections. Each excerpt is thoroughly explained and previewed. Each chapter concludes with an extensive annotated listing of further readings. The authors are leading experts in administrative and environmental law.
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The consumer and environmental movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s represent a colossal achievement in civilizing our industrial, market society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sophisticated saboteurs, sophisticated sabotage, stringency determinations, differential oversight, professional risk assessors, statistical murder, science charade, tive risk assessment, regulatory reformers, benzene decision, comparative risk analysis, regulatory priorities, toxin control, environmental justice advocates, statistical lives, potential injurers, regulatory benefits, regulatory costs, justice implications, regulatory outcomes, ecological economists, endowment effect, environmental statutes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Clean Air Act, Kip Viscusi, Professor Heinzerling, Putney Swope, Professor of Law, Bushy Run, Supreme Court, Professor Applegate, Professor Wagner, University of Texas School of Law, Eileen Gauna, Environmental Protection Agency, Howard Latin, John Graham, Lisa Heinzerling, New York, Professor Viscusi, Bush Administration, Judge Williams, Professor Steinzor, Public Citizen, Red Book, Cost-Benefit State, Dominic Golding New!
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The consumer and environmental movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s represent a colossal achievement in civilizing our industrial, market society. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sophisticated saboteurs, sophisticated sabotage, stringency determinations, differential oversight, professional risk assessors, statistical murder, science charade, tive risk assessment, regulatory reformers, benzene decision, comparative risk analysis, regulatory priorities, toxin control, environmental justice advocates, statistical lives, potential injurers, regulatory benefits, regulatory costs, justice implications, regulatory outcomes, ecological economists, endowment effect, environmental statutes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Clean Air Act, Kip Viscusi, Professor Heinzerling, Putney Swope, Professor of Law, Bushy Run, Supreme Court, Professor Applegate, Professor Wagner, University of Texas School of Law, Eileen Gauna, Environmental Protection Agency, Howard Latin, John Graham, Lisa Heinzerling, New York, Professor Viscusi, Bush Administration, Judge Williams, Professor Steinzor, Public Citizen, Red Book, Cost-Benefit State, Dominic Golding New!
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- Regulatory Reform by Peter W. House on page 18, page 27, and page 98
- Health and Safety (Statutory Instruments) by The Stationery Office on page 64, and page 98
- In Search of Safety: Chemicals and Cancer Risk by John D. Graham on page 100, and page 194
- Environmental Risk (The International Library of Environmental Law and Policy) (Vol 1 & 2) by John S. Applegate on page 99, and page 136
- Administrative Law Cases, Text, and Materials by J. Evans in Front Matter, and page 101
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