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Risk Regulation at Risk - Restoring a Pragmatic Approach (Paperback, New Ed)
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Risk Regulation at Risk - Restoring a Pragmatic Approach (Paperback, New Ed)
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress enacted a vast body of legislation
to protect the environment and individual health and safety.
Collectively, this legislation is known as "risk regulation"
because it addresses the risk of harm that technology creates for
individuals and the environment. In the last two decades, this
legislation has come under increasing attack by critics who employ
utilitarian philosophy and cost-benefit analysis. The defenders of
this body of risk regulation, by contrast, have lacked a similar
unifying theory. In this book, the authors propose that the
American tradition of philosophical pragmatism fills this vacuum.
They argue that pragmatism offers a better method for conceiving of
and implementing risk regulation than the economic paradigm favored
by its critics. While pragmatism offers a methodology in support of
risk regulation as it was originally conceived, it also offers a
perspective from which this legislation can be held up to critical
appraisal. The authors employ pragmatism to support risk
regulation, but pragmatism also leads them to agree with some of
the criticisms against it, and even to level new criticisms of
their own. In the end, the authors reject the picture-painted by
risk regulation's critics-of widely excessive and irrational
regulation, but the pragmatic perspective also leads them to
propose a number of recommendations for useful reforms to risk
regulation.
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