Cost-Benefit Analysis

Scholars evaluate the viability of adjusting regulations to accommodate changes in economic conditions.

Concerns about runaway regulatory costs are overblown.

Recent momentum in favor of regulatory reform is a positive development, and long overdue.

Consumer safety leaders debate how independent agencies can best improve the rulemaking process.

The Trump Administration’s new social cost of carbon policy muddies the waters.

Agency sees increased effectiveness after incorporating feedback from courts and academics.

Creative policy changes could re-center our criminal justice system.

Under President Trump’s executive order, the benefits of new regulations will play no role in regulatory decision-making.

Economist argues that energy-efficiency regulations are riddled with problems and espouses their elimination.

Scholar argues that regulators will have difficulty applying cost-benefit analysis to mandatory GMO labeling.

Public Citizen and the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards convened panels of regulatory experts.

Experts argue that the number and cost of regulations sharply rose in 2015—at a rate that has held steady in 2016.