Valuing life : humanizing the regulatory state

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 proc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sunstein, Cass R., 1954- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; and London : The University of Chicago Press cop. 2014
Materias:
Estados Unidos. > Office of Management and Budget. > Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
Procedimiento administrativo > Aspectos sociales > Estados Unidos.
Organismos administrativos > Aspectos sociales > Estados Unidos.
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991005251789708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Franklin's algebra
  • Inside government
  • Human consequences, or the real world of cost-benefit analysis
  • Dignity, financial meltdown, and other nonquantifiable things
  • Valuing life, 1: problems
  • Valuing life, 2: solutions
  • The morality of risk
  • 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: estimates of benefits and costs of selected federal regulations
  • Appendix D: selected examples of breakeven analysis
  • Appendix E: values for mortality and morbidity.

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