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Benefit-cost

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Fiscal policy

Here's One Way To Move Toward Responsible Government and Sane Fiscal Policy

The Copenhagen Consensus has long championed a cost-benefit approach for addressing the world's most critical environmental problems.

Veronique de Rugy | 11.16.2023 12:01 AM

Administrative Law

Is OMB Stacking the Deck for More Progressive Cost-Benefit Analysis?

The Biden Administration is revising the rules for how agencies conduct cost-benefit analyses, and some CBA experts have expressed concerns.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.29.2023 4:35 PM

Benefit-cost

The Progressive Case for Cost-Benefit Analysis (But Not As Conducted in the Trump Administration)

My review of Reviving Rationality:Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health by Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 7.13.2022 4:09 PM

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Vaccines

Vaccine-Related Heart Inflammation Risks for Young People Much Lower Than COVID-19 Heart Inflammation Risks

Young males infected with COVID-19 are six times more likely to develop myocarditis than those who have been vaccinated.

Ronald Bailey | 9.15.2021 4:15 PM

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Vaccines

Biden Administration To Donate 500 Million Doses of Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 Vaccine to Poor Countries

Epidemics anywhere threaten immunization efforts everywhere, including here at home.

Ronald Bailey | 6.9.2021 5:15 PM

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Environmental Protection Agency

Activists Decry Effort to Bring Economic Rationality to Clean Air Regulation

"A standard demanding the return of the Stone Age would not prove 'requisite to protect the public health.'"

Ronald Bailey | 5.11.2018 2:30 PM

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Education

Going to College Is Selfish

Let's stop pretending education is a public good.

Bryan Caplan | 3.11.2018 6:00 AM

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Artificial Intelligence

Countering the Threat of the Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence

Are smart Roombas booby-trapped with bombs in our future?

Ronald Bailey | 2.21.2018 4:45 PM

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Made in America

'Buy American' Is Un-American

Nick Gillespie | 10.1.2017 5:40 PM

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Carbon Tax

The Social Cost of Carbon and Congress: New at Reason

Underpins 80 federal regulations purportedly worth one trillion dollars

Ronald Bailey | 3.3.2017 2:15 PM

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Investigative Journalism

Where Did All the Investigative Journalism Go?

The economics of the exposé

Jack Shafer | 2.22.2017 4:00 PM

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Solar Power

New Proposed Nevada Solar Power Plant Would Cost Six Times More Than the Hoover Dam

While supposedly delivering about the same amount of electricity.

Ronald Bailey | 10.12.2016 3:03 PM

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Regulation

Ridiculous Rules For Swordfish, Ceiling Fans, Grain Barges Help Make 2016 The Most Highly Regulated Year In History

Registry of federal regulations surpasses 50,000 pages, on pace to break annual record.

Eric Boehm | 8.4.2016 10:05 AM

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Barack Obama

"Hi, I'm President Obama and I'm here in Alaska to help fix the climate."

Will government solutions to global warming be worse than global warming?

Ronald Bailey | 9.4.2015 1:30 PM

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Environmental Protection Agency

In Mercury Case, Supreme Court Rules That the EPA Must Take Costs and Benefits Into Account

No regulation is "appropriate" if it does significantly more harm than good, argues majority opinion.

Ronald Bailey | 6.29.2015 2:22 PM

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Regulation

The Government's Ten Thousand Commandments Cost $1.88 Trillion Per Year

Regulations now cost your family nearly $15,000 annually.

Ronald Bailey | 5.12.2015 1:03 PM

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Economics

College Students Increasingly Illegally Downloading Textbooks for Free

Who could blame them?

Zenon Evans | 9.19.2014 11:10 AM

Barack Obama

Obama's EPA Carbon Rationing Plan: Cost Effective or Just Costly?

Ronald Bailey | 6.2.2014 1:15 PM

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Policy

Diplomas vs. Dirty Jobs

TV host Mike Rowe on the educational bias against unglamorous, good-paying work

Nick Gillespie | 3.20.2014 9:00 AM

Policy

Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Renewable Energy Technology

Model T energy tech is no way to address climate change.

Ronald Bailey | 11.1.2013 1:30 PM

Science & Technology

Parsing the Benefits of Climate Change

Ronald Bailey | 10.21.2013 12:03 PM

Policy

Want to Save Health Care Costs? Then Subsidize Smoking

Ronald Bailey | 11.21.2012 5:01 PM

Politics

Why We Should Fear Bathtubs More Than Terrorists-Authors John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart on Security Spending

Nick Gillespie and Meredith Bragg | 11.21.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

How Scared of Terrorism Should You Be?

Not very. You are four times more likely to be killed by a lightning bolt than by a terror attack.

Ronald Bailey | 9.6.2011 6:00 PM

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