Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health

by Michael A. Livermore and Richard L. Revesz

Book Overview

That America's natural environment has been degraded and despoiled over the past 25 years is beyond dispute. Nor has there been any shortage of reasons why-short-sighted politicians, a society built on over-consumption, and the dramatic weakening of environmental regulations.

In Retaking Rationality, Richard L. Revesz and Michael A. Livermore argue convincingly that one of the least understood-and most important-causes of our failure to protect...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195368576
• ISBN13: 9780195368574
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"