Document Type
Article
Comments
Putting Cost-Benefit Analysis in Its Place: Rethinking Regulatory Review, 65 University of Miami Law Review 335 (2011)
Abstract
Policymakers need to reassess the role of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in regulatory review. Although it remains a valuable tool, a number of pressing current problems do not fit well into the CBA paradigm. In particular, climate change, nuclear accident risks, and the preservation of biodiversity can have very long-run impacts that may produce catastrophic and irreversible effects. This article seeks to put cost-benefit analysis in its place by demonstrating both its strengths and its limitations. The Obama Administration should rethink the use of CBA as a way to evaluate regulatory policies and develop procedures to restrict its use to policy areas where its underlying assumptions fit the nature of the problem.
Date of Authorship for this Version
2011
Recommended Citation
Rose-Ackerman, Susan, "Putting Cost-Benefit Analysis in Its Place: Rethinking Regulatory Review" (2011). Faculty Scholarship Series. 4156.
https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/4156