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...School students to steal soup. [3] The institute could fund one organization that teaches inmates to read and another that just teaches them how to find a study guide before the final. Remember, it doesn’t matter whether the projects are useful. We only need them to cost money and to start quickly. 6. Finally, Harvard can use the Allston expansion to return to its religious roots. We can meet students where they are right now, spiritually, by building the First Church of Speeism, founded on faith in Mammon. Of course, it would be non-denominational: all currencies...
...reason is Sunstein's support for cost-benefit analysis, the practice of examining regulations to ensure that their benefit to society outweighs whatever costs they impose. Liberal advocacy groups claim that cost-benefit analysis has been a weapon that every Republican President since Ronald Reagan - who created OIRA - has used to thwart effective government regulation of the environment, workplace and consumer safety. OIRA, after all, examines all proposed federal regulations before they take effect - be they issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration - and it has the power...
...face of it, the idea of cost-benefit analysis seems like a relatively uncontroversial idea. It seems reasonable to assess, for instance, whether improvements in public health are significant enough to justify the financial costs imposed on polluters to curb the emission of harmful particles into the air. Reasonable, that is, until you start to fashion formulas for deciding just how costs and benefits should be measured...
...Consider government standards for allowable amounts of arsenic in water, a topic Sunstein has written about. A standard set at 3 parts per billion will save more lives than a standard set at 10 parts per billion, but it will also cost more to achieve - a cost that will in turn be passed on to consumers in their water bills. If it can be shown that the more stringent standard would result in saving 10 lives per year, how much would society be willing to pay to achieve that? Ten million dollars? A hundred million? A billion...
...voluminous writings, Sunstein (who is not giving interviews before his confirmation hearings) has repeatedly defended the idea of a strong regulatory state. But his critics say that on a case-by-case basis he routinely comes down in favor of applying cost-benefit analysis in a way that would disallow the regulation in question. And they haven't forgotten that in 2001, Sunstein backed George W. Bush's choice of John Graham to head OIRA, though 37 Senate Democrats voted against him. Under Graham and his successor Susan Dudley, OIRA applied cost-benefit analysis stringently, with what their critics...