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The Structure and Enforcement of Job Safety Regulation
(Law & Contemporary Problems, 1986)
For more than a decade, the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) has been regulating the technology and work
practices of employers. This governmental function is relatively new and is
quite different ...
Health and Safety
(Regulation, 1982)
My review of recent risk regulation policies necessarily starts with the new oversight group within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), because it has been the dominant force for improvement thus far. Unfortunately, ...
Product Liability and Regulation: Establishing the Appropriate Institutional Division of Labor
(American Economic Association, 2012)
Society has several institutional mechanisms that promote the control of product health and safety risks and compensation of the income losses that these risks generated. For risks traded in the market, economic forces at ...
Safety at Any Price
(Regulation, 2002)
After three decades of experience with extensive government regulation and oversight of health, safety and environmental matters, we have reason to believe that those measures have largely failed to fulfill their initial ...
Are Individuals Bayesian Decision Makers?
(American Economic Review, 1985)
There has been increasing interest in whether normative models of individual choice under uncertainty accord with actual behavior. These concerns have been much greater than in other economic contexts because of the ...
Market Incentives for Safety
(Harvard Business Review, 1985)
In the heated atmosphere generated by inch-high headlines and multimillion-dollar liability suits, two important facts often get lost. First, society's awareness of what ensuring reasonably complete safety would cost rarely ...