Regulations that Make Sense

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 1, 2014

Harvard Law School professor and the author of Valuing Life: Humanizing the Regulatory State (University Of Chicago Press, 2014), Cass Sunstein, argues that his experience as head of the Obama White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) showed him that we need to reform our cost/benefit models and make regulations more responsive to people's lives.

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