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Автор: Sunstein Cass R.
Название: The Cost-Benefit Revolution
ISBN: 9780262538015
Издательство: MIT Press
Классификация:

Политэкономия

Государственная собственность / национализация

ISBN-10: 0262538016
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.32 кг.
Дата издания: 24.09.2019
Серия: The mit press
Язык: English
Размер: 142 x 223 x 16
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on intuition, popular opinion, interest groups, and anecdotes.

Opinions on government policies vary widely. Some people feel passionately about the child obesity epidemic and support government regulation of sugary drinks. Others argue that people should be able to eat and drink whatever they like. Some people are alarmed about climate change and favor aggressive government intervention. Others dont feel the need for any sort of climate regulation. In The Cost-Benefit Revolution, Cass Sunstein argues our major disagreements really involve facts, not values. It follows that government policy should not be based on public opinion, intuitions, or pressure from interest groups, but on numbers--meaning careful consideration of costs and benefits. Will a policy save one life, or one thousand lives? Will it impose costs on consumers, and if so, will the costs be high or negligible? Will it hurt workers and small businesses, and, if so, precisely how much?

As the Obama administrations regulatory czar, Sunstein knows his subject in both theory and practice. Drawing on behavioral economics and his well-known emphasis on nudging, he celebrates the cost-benefit revolution in policy making, tracing its defining moments in the Reagan, Clinton, and Obama administrations (and pondering its uncertain future in the Trump administration). He acknowledges that public officials often lack information about costs and benefits, and outlines state-of-the-art techniques for acquiring that information. Policies should make peoples lives better. Quantitative cost-benefit analysis, Sunstein argues, is the best available method for making this happen--even if, in the future, new measures of human well-being, also explored in this book, may be better still.

The Cost-Benefit Revolution, Sunstein Cass R.