%0 Journal Article %A Lave, Lester B. %D 1995 %T Risky Business: Thinking About the Benefits and Costs of Government Regulation %U https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Risky_Business_Thinking_About_the_Benefits_and_Costs_of_Government_Regulation/6707852 %R 10.1184/R1/6707852.v1 %2 https://kilthub.cmu.edu/ndownloader/files/12236924 %K Business %K Management %X

No federal agency makes a systematic or comprehensive effort to estimate the health and safety costs of proposed government regulations. Too often, these costs arc treated as though they are an impolite intrusion in a serious debate. The time has come to explore new ways to estimate direct and indirect costs of a proposed regulation and bring these into the debate. Unfortunately, the most serious recent attempt to do this was swiftly rebuffed.

%I Carnegie Mellon University