Title
Is There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation?
Date of Original Version
4-1996
Type
Article
Published In
Science New Series, Vol. 272, No. 5259 (Apr. 12, 1996) (pp. 221-222)
Abstract or Table of Contents
The growing impact of regulations on the economy has led both Congress and the Administration to search for new ways of reforming the regulatory process. Many of these initiatives call for greater reliance on the use of economic analysis in the development and evaluation of regulations One specific approach being advocated is benefit- cost analysis, an economic tool for comparing the desirable and undesirable impacts of proposed policies.