It's Time to Cut Government Regulations

Authors

Murray L. Weidenbaum, Washington University in St Louis
Melinda Warren

Files

Publication Date

1-1-1995

Series Information

Occasional Paper 147

Publisher

Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130

Description

Congress should establish a committee on regulatory reform. Changes that would be helpful include: 1) require benefit-cost analysis for new regulation; 2) enforce a fixed timetable for agencies to issue permits; 3) emphasize objectives sought rather than precise methods to be used; 4) use risk assessment for achieving environmental, health, and safety protection; and 5) promote regulatory justice.

Keywords

Government Regulation, Deregulation, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Costs of Regulation

Disciplines

Economics | Public Policy

Comments

The Center for the Study of American Business (CSAB), 1975-2001, is the predecessor of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy at Washington University in St. Louis. Permanent URL: http://dx.doi/org/10.7936/K7668BBT

DOI

doi:10.7936/K7668BBT

Recommended Citation

Weidenbaum, Murray L. and Warren, Melinda, "It's Time to Cut Government Regulations", Occasional Paper 147, 1995, doi:10.7936/K7668BBT.
Murray Weidenbaum Publications, https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/mlw_papers/135.