Consumer Safety Regulation: Putting a Price on Life and Limb

by Peter Asch

Advocates of consumer safety regulation, an active and controversial area of public policy in the United States, contend that markets do not adequately protect the interests of vulnerable consumers; market traditionalists respond that public agencies increasingly make risk/safety decisions that individual citizens ought to be making for themselves. This book, written by an economist, critically assesses the rationales for, and the effects of, our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195049721
• ISBN13: 9780195049725
• Release Date: May 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"