The debate over environmental, health, and safety regulation has reached a new crescendo in the 104th Congress. So impassioned is the debate on occasion, and so high the feelings, that even the tools of regulatory analysis have become part of the combat. To some, the term cost-benefit analysis, for example, is virtually a swearword, a nefarious tool used by big business to undermine regulations aimed at benefiting the people at large. To others, it is the mechanism for achieving more effective regulation at less cost. This new book on the subject of reforming regulation is aimed at increasing the light and turning down the heat. It consists of an introduction and nine chapters written by scientists, public policy analysts, and economists on various aspects of regulation and regulatory analysis. The book advances the latest knowledge and evidence on risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and related techniques for improving regulation--all based on experience and data accumulated over the quarter century since regulation in the areas of environment, health, and safety became a major player on the governmental stage. The strengths and limitations of those analytical tools are an important part of the portrait that is painted, but a common thesis is that, properly used, the tools can be helpful in getting better regulatory results.

Risks, Costs, and Lives Saved:: Getting Better Results from Regulation

Business & Money

Hahn, Robert W.

Economics

AEI Press

From the first publication of The Bobsey Twins in 1904 to titles published in 1992, Storey annotates over 300 books that feature twins. Readers will be able to locate popular stories as well as some of the finest children's and adolescent literature in the country, and they will be able to track characters through a number of information sources. The author summarizes each book, describes the family life of the twins in it and the characters' feelings about being twins, and lists topics pertinent to the story. An unusual feature of the bibliography is the inclusion of comments made by authors who have shared their reasons for writing about twins. An index shows whether the twins are main, secondary, or minor characters.

Significant Decisions of the Supreme Court, 1980-1981 Term

Paul B. Stephan III

America's Continuing Revolution: An Act of Conservation (Distinguished lecture series on the Bicentennial)

Tonsor, S. J.

Reference

Towards a Reconstruction of Macro-Economics: Problems of Theory and Policy

Fellner, William John

Contemporary Economic Problems 1978

Contemporary Economic Problems 1979

United States Relations with Mexico:Context and Content

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Meeting Human Needs: Toward a New Public Philosophy

Meyer, Jack A.

Reagan Phenomenon and Other Speeches on Foreign Policy

Kirkpatrick, Jeane J.

Politics & Government

British Renaissance 1979 (Francis Boyer Lectures on Public Policy)

Walters, A.A.

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