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Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation
Stephen Breyer
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Description for Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation
paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 5 line illustrations, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JM; JPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 186.
Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read by everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory processes. Written by a highly respected federal judge, who would go on to serve on the Supreme Court, and who obviously recognizes the necessity of regulation but perceives its failures and weaknesses as well, it pinpoints the most serious problems and offers a creative solution that would for the first time bring rationality to bear on the vital issue of priorities in our era of limited resources.
Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read by everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory processes. Written by a highly respected federal judge, who would go on to serve on the Supreme Court, and who obviously recognizes the necessity of regulation but perceives its failures and weaknesses as well, it pinpoints the most serious problems and offers a creative solution that would for the first time bring rationality to bear on the vital issue of priorities in our era of limited resources.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674081154
SKU
V9780674081154
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About Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1994 to 2022. He is now Byrne Professor of Administrative Law and Process at Harvard Law School.
Reviews for Breaking the Vicious Circle: Toward Effective Risk Regulation
Reads like one of those intellectually exciting lectures for which some professors become so well known that their courses are fittingly oversubscribed every year. The style is clear and the analysis is dotted with the kind of provocative questions at the heart of this debate: how much regulation is enough, how much is too much, and the ultimate question, what ... Read more