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

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 …

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 …

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" …

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 …

In The Limits of Quantification, Professor Cass R. Sunstein persuasively argues that
administrative agencies should engage in breakeven analysis when they are not able to …

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 …

Recent scholarship on regulatory oversight has focused on costbenefit analysis of
prescriptive regulations-regulations that restrict behavior such as pollution-and their use to …

The two most vilified cases in administrative law are Business Roundtable v Securities and
Exchange Commission and Corrosion Proof Fittings v Environmental Protection Agency. In …

1344 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW[Vol. 150: 1343 rescinding or
withdrawing several high profile workplace and environmental rules and announcing the …