Risk Regulation at Risk: Restoring a Pragmatic Approach

By Sidney A. Shapiro, Robert L. Glicksman, Robert Glicksman

Book Overview

Legislation to reduce human and environmental injury before it occurs has, in the last two decades, come under increasing attack by critics who employ utilitarian philosophy and cost-benefit analysis. The legislation's defenders have lacked a unifying theory, which the authors propose should be the American tradition of philosophical pragmatism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804751021
• ISBN13: 9780804751025
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"