The United States is a" cost-benefit state,"'if one of rather recent advent. 2 In the years since
President Ronald Reagan's first inauguration, the use of cost-benefit analysis as a …

For over two decades, federal agencies have been required to analyze the benefits and
costs of significant regulatory actions and to show that the benef justify the costs. But the …

The Viscusi1 and Scales' articles from Fordham University School of Law's symposium
entitled The Contemporary Regulatory State present an interesting discussion of some of the …

Cost-benefit analysis purports to calibrate regulation. But the way administrative agencies
practice cost-benefit analysis can, at best, calibrate a rule at the moment of its promulgation …

For almost thirty years, regulatory agencies like the Environmen tal Protection Agency (EPA)
have been required to perform cost benefit analyses that are subject to review by the Office …

In 1989, Cass Sunstein1 published an article entitled On the Costs and Benefits of
Aggressive Judicial Review of Agency Action. 2 Sunstein apparently meant the words" …

Mr. Dooley notwithstanding, 1 the Supreme Court does not always follow the election
returns. Soon after he took office, President Reagan issued Executive Order 12,291, to …

Several legal scholars are highly skeptical of the use of costbenefit analysis and other
economic tools in regulatory decisionmak-ing. Recently, these critics have focused on …

Executive orders, statutes, and precedent increasingly require cost-benefit analysis of
regulations. Presidential executive orders have long required executive agencies to submit …

1999. The conference was motivated by the observation that cost-benefit analysis has
become a very common tool of project evaluation in the federal government and indeed, as …