The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is
the United States’s regulatory overseer. In Valuing Life, Cass R.
Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the Administrator of
OIRA from 2009 to 2012 to argue that we can humanize regulation—and
save lives in the process. As OIRA Administrator, Sunstein helped
oversee regulation in a broad variety of areas, including highway
safety, health care, homeland security, immigration, energy,
environmental protection, and education. This background allows him to
describe OIRA and how it works—and how it can work better—from an
on-the-ground perspective. Using real-world examples, many of them
drawn from today’s headlines, Sunstein makes a compelling case for
improving cost-benefit analysis, a longtime cornerstone of regulatory
decision-making, and for taking account of variables that are hard to
quantify, such as dignity and personal privacy. He also shows how
regulatory decisions about health, safety, and life itself can benefit
from taking into account behavioral and psychological research,
including new findings about what scares us, and what does not. By
better accounting for people’s fallibility, Sunstein argues, we can
create regulation that is simultaneously more human and more likely to
achieve its goals. In this highly readable synthesis of insights from
law, policy, economics, and psychology, Sunstein breaks down the
intricacies of the regulatory system and offers a new way of thinking
about regulation that incorporates human dignity– and an insistent
focus on the consequences of our choices.
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ISBN
9780226129426
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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