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A Comment on the Conference on Cost-Benefit Analysis

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This comment discusses the importance of politics in understanding cost-benefit analysis. Economists frequently rely on a social planner model, under which cost-benefit analysis has a straightforward role, but a better model is the interest group competition model. In this model, cost-benefit analysis can be used to explain why some regulations are adopted and others are not. Further, cost-benefit analysis may also be useful for undermining misleading claims of self-interested political pressure groups. Copyright 2000 by the University of Chicago.

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  • Becker, Gary S, 2000. "A Comment on the Conference on Cost-Benefit Analysis," The Journal of Legal Studies, University of Chicago Press, vol. 29(2), pages 1149-1152, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jlstud:v:29:y:2000:i:2:p:1149-52
    DOI: 10.1086/468107
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    1. Martin Eling & David Pankoke, 2016. "Costs and Benefits of Financial Regulation: An Empirical Assessment for Insurance Companies," The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance - Issues and Practice, Palgrave Macmillan;The Geneva Association, vol. 41(4), pages 529-554, October.
    2. Michael Makowsky & Richard Wagner, 2009. "From scholarly idea to budgetary institution: the emergence of cost-benefit analysis," Constitutional Political Economy, Springer, vol. 20(1), pages 57-70, March.
    3. Tomio Kinoshita, 2002. "A Cost‐Benefit Analysis Of Enlarging The Japanese Judicial System," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 20(2), pages 179-192, April.

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