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Cleaning Up Superfund
(The Public Interest, 1996)
The cleanup of hazardous wastes is the number one environmental concern of the American people. The government's response: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched its Superfund program, which was established by ...
Pain and Suffering: Damages in Search of a Sounder Rationale
(Michigan Law & Policy Review, 1996)
Compensation for non-pecuniary losses is one of the most controversial components of tort liability. Newspaper headlines routinely feature occasionally extreme awards, such as the $2.9 million award to the women who spilled ...
Economic Foundations of the Current Regulatory Reform Efforts
(Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1996)
Almost since the inception of the risk and environmental agencies in the early 1970s, there has been a continuing concern with ensuring that regulations yield societal benefits commensurate with their costs. This recognition ...
Regulating the Regulators
(University of Chicago Law Review, 1996)
Since the 1970s, there has been a tremendous growth in government regulation pertaining to risk and the environment. These efforts have emerged quite legitimately because market processes alone cannot fully address ...
Individual Rationality, Hazard Warnings, and the Foundations of Tort Law
(Rutgers Law Review, 1996)
If all people were fully rational and cognizant of all the risks they faced, then they would always select an efficient level of safety in all their activities and other choices. Thus people would trade off the potential ...