| Popis: |
Despite objections from certain constituencies, President Obama placed cost-benefit analysis at the very center of his administration’s governing philosophy. He also pursued an aggressive agenda of new regulatory protections for public health, consumers, and the environment. His time in office demonstrated in powerful terms that cost-benefit analysis need not be associated with an anti-regulatory agenda. The synthesis of cost-benefit analysis and a progressive regulatory agenda helped mitigate intraparty conflict among Democrats but also opened up fissures among prior supporters of cost-benefit analysis, who assumed that its use would generally lead to less regulation. |
