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Cost-benefit environmentalism: an oxymoron
Lisa Heinzerling responds to Richard Revesz on cost-benefit analysis |
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14 May 2008 |
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| This is a guest essay from Lisa Heinzerling, Professor of Law at Georgetown University and author, with Frank Ackerman, of Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, published in 2004 by The New Press. ----- The efficient wasteland In his essay, Richard Revesz argues in favor of a 'cost-benefit environmentalism' that embraces economic analysis and "uses both reason and compassion to justify strong environmental rules." It is wo ... |
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