Risk Regulation at Risk

Restoring a Pragmatic Approach

Autor: Sidney A. Shapiro, Robert L. Glicksman

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Editura: Stanford University Press

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In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress enacted a vast body of legislation to protect the environment and i...

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Autor

Sidney A. Shapiro, Robert L. Glicksman

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2002

Pagini

288

EAN

9780804745932

ISBN

0804745935

Enbook ID

04717544

Editura

Stanford University Press

Greutate

517

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 22

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In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress enacted a vast body of legislation to protect the environment and individual health and safety. Collectively, this legislation is known as "risk regulation" because it addresses the risk of harm that technology creates for individuals and the environment. In the last two decades, this legislation has come under increasing attack by critics who employ utilitarian philosophy and cost-benefit analysis. The defenders of this body of risk regulation, by contrast, have lacked a similar unifying theory. In this book, the authors propose that the American tradition of philosophical pragmatism fills this vacuum. They argue that pragmatism offers a better method for conceiving of and implementing risk regulation than the economic paradigm favored by its critics. While pragmatism offers a methodology in support of risk regulation as it was originally conceived, it also offers a perspective from which this legislation can be held up to critical appraisal. The authors employ pragmatism to support risk regulation, but pragmatism also leads them to agree with some of the criticisms against it, and even to level new criticisms of their own. In the end, the authors reject the picture - painted by risk regulation's critics - of widely excessive and irrational regulation, but the pragmatic perspective also leads them to propose a number of recommendations for useful reforms to risk regulation.

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