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Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Inadequate Basis For Health, Safety, And Environmental Regulatory Decisionmaking, Michael S. Baram Jan 1980

Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Inadequate Basis For Health, Safety, And Environmental Regulatory Decisionmaking, Michael S. Baram

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The use of cost-benefit analysis in agency decisionmaking has been hailed as the cure for numerous dissatisfactions with governmental regulation. Using this form of economic analysis arguably promotes rational decisionmaking and prevents health, safety, and environmental regulations from having inflationary and other adverse economic impacts. Closer analysis, however, reveals that the cost-benefit approach to regulatory decisionmaking suffers from major methodological limitations and institutional abuses. In practice, regulatory uses of cost-benefit analysis stifle and obstruct the achievement of legislated health, safety, and environmental goals.

This Article critically reviews the methodological limitations of cost-benefit analysis, current agency uses of cost-benefit analysis under …


Insider Transactions Under The 1940 Act, Tamar Frankel Nov 1978

Insider Transactions Under The 1940 Act, Tamar Frankel

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Technology Assessment And Social Control, Michael S. Baram May 1973

Technology Assessment And Social Control, Michael S. Baram

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The emerging concepts of corporate responsibility and technology assessment are, to a considerable extent, responses to problems arising from technological developments and their applications by industry and government. These problems appear in the relatively discrete sectors of consumer protection and occupational safety and in the diffuse sectors of community quality of life and the national and international environments.


The "Control" Test For Limited Partnerships, Alan L. Feld May 1969

The "Control" Test For Limited Partnerships, Alan L. Feld

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Under the Uniform Limited Partnership Act, a limited partner may become generally liable if "in addition to the exercise of his rights and powers as a limited partner, he takes part in the control of the business." Although the Act is now over fifty years old, no satisfactory standard of "control" has been enunciated, and no definition of the "rights and powers" of a limited partner has been forthcoming. Mr. Feld examines the ambiguities in the statutory language and the dilemma in which they place counsel seeking to advise his clients, and concludes that the Act is due for an …