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Let's Try Performance-Based Regulation To Attack Our Smoking And Obesity Problems, Stephen D. Sugarman
Let's Try Performance-Based Regulation To Attack Our Smoking And Obesity Problems, Stephen D. Sugarman
Stephen D Sugarman
Instead of "command and control" regulation, and instead of litigation, let's try "performance-based regulation" as a way to force enterprises that are responsible for our obesity and smoking problems to solve them.
Making The Food And Beverage Industry Take Responsibility For Reducing Childhood Obesity: A Market-Based Approach To Public Health, Stephen D. Sugarman
Making The Food And Beverage Industry Take Responsibility For Reducing Childhood Obesity: A Market-Based Approach To Public Health, Stephen D. Sugarman
Stephen D Sugarman
How we might attack childhood obesity through performance based regulation, requiring food and beverage companies to solve the problem they have created.
"Lifestyle" Discrimination In Employment, Stephen D. Sugarman
"Lifestyle" Discrimination In Employment, Stephen D. Sugarman
Stephen D Sugarman
This article examines instances in which employers fire or refuse to hire workers because of their conduct off of the job (their lifestyle). It explores employer reasons for such practices and considers employee objections on the basis of their privacy rights. Then it considers a range of legal protection that is or might be given to protect employees from such discrimination.
Approving Charter Schools: The Gatekeeper Function, Stephen D. Sugarman
Approving Charter Schools: The Gatekeeper Function, Stephen D. Sugarman
Stephen D Sugarman
Charter schools hold great promise to reform and improve K-12 education. Charter school authorizors must tread a narrow line between giving the schools the necessary autonomy and assuring that several key public values are being upheld. This article examines the chartering process and makes a range of reform recommendations.
"Pay At The Pump" Auto Insurance: The California Vehicle Injury Plan (Vip) For Better Compensation, Fairer Funding, And Greater Safety, Stephen D. Sugarman
"Pay At The Pump" Auto Insurance: The California Vehicle Injury Plan (Vip) For Better Compensation, Fairer Funding, And Greater Safety, Stephen D. Sugarman
Stephen D Sugarman
This small book offers the basic argument for a comprehensive auto no-fault plan that is largely funded by payments made as motorists purchase gasoline. This VIP "Pay at the Pump" plan would replace the current scheme of tort liability and private automobile liability insurance. It would save most motorists money, it would more fairly price the cost of auto accidents, it would promote safer cars and safer driving, and it would far better compensate victims (especially seriously injured victims) of auto accidents than does the current scheme.
Nader's Failures?, Stephen D. Sugarman
Nader's Failures?, Stephen D. Sugarman
Stephen D Sugarman
How can we improve auto safety? Has federal legislation helped? Has Ralph Nader helped? What about tort law? These matters are explored thorugh a review of Mashaw and Harfst's book "The Struggle for Auto Safety."