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Revitalizing Regulation, Daniel A. Farber
Revitalizing Regulation, Daniel A. Farber
Daniel A Farber
A Review of Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector by David Osborne and Rethinking the Progressive Agenda: The Reform of the American Regulatory State by Susan Rose-Ackerman
Regulatory Review In Anti-Regulatory Times, Daniel A. Farber
Regulatory Review In Anti-Regulatory Times, Daniel A. Farber
Daniel A Farber
This article investigates the role of cost-benefit analysis during an antiregulatory period. The period since 2016 has seen several new developments, including the first vigorous use by Congress of its power to overturn recently issued regulations and the creation of novel deregulatory mechanisms layered on top of cost-benefit analysis. This period also contains important examples of sharply reversed CBAs, in which regulations that were said to have large net benefits under Obama are instead said to have net costs under Trump. The Trump Administration’s regulatory review initiatives focus heavily on costs, with limited attention to benefits. Case studies of three …