Sarbanes-Oxley miserably flunks any cost-benefit analysis, too.
Even his decision to ditch some of his predecessor's last-minute environmental regulations owed more to cost-benefit analysis than to ideology.
Whistle-blowers undoubtedly face significant risk and must do cost-benefit analysis to decide whether to come forward.
Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
Mr. Weiss has also worked in various international fora to enhance regulatory transparency, incentivize the development of standards through open, transparent, consensus-based processes, encourage the use of good regulatory practices (including cost-benefit analysis), and facilitate greater regulatory alignment with major U.S. trading partners.
Proponents argue that such cost-benefit analysis has to figure into health-care decisions, and that any medical system rations care in some way.
Based on the results of cost-benefit analysis, state regulators would potentially require investor-owned utilities to enter long-term contracts to buy offshore wind power.
That is why the next wave of environmental policymaking will need to employ commonsense tools such as cost-benefit analysis, and make greater use of flexible, market-based instruments such as emissions-trading, rather than the tired command-and-control approach favoured by most greens.
Private benefits have long been used in cost-benefit analysis but Ms Dudley's data show that, like co-benefits, their importance has grown dramatically under Mr Obama.
In it, he explores the centuries-old, and still raging, philosophical arguments over the limitations of utilitarianism and its economic descendant, cost-benefit analysis.
So cost-benefit analysis is rarely dispositive, but to say that costs are irrelevant is just misguided.
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"The bottom line is you have to do a cost-benefit analysis, " Arnold of CreditRatings.com said.
This is an industry which has largely managed to escape even basic cost-benefit analysis.
Those who question cost-benefit analysis doubt that a price tag can ever be put on life.
Also to his credit, he has insisted on applying cost-benefit analysis to environmental legislation.
The IRS has failed to perform a cost-benefit analysis, as required by executive order 12866 .
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Whether or not this is fair to President George Bush's administration, is it fair to cost-benefit analysis?
Various industry lobbies and GOP Congressmen demanded that the SEC do a cost-benefit analysis on the rule.
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In today's cost-benefit analysis of fighting something in court vs. damaging your relationship with your consumers, relationships win.
Cost-benefit analysis (which puts a discount rate on the future, and measures in dollars and cents) is wicked.
Thus the spectre of disestablishment returns, not as a constitutional issue but as part of a cost-benefit analysis.
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As the critics allege, cost-benefit analysis works like a kind of universal solvent.
Rigorous, hard, fact based Cost-Benefit Analysis has to be applied if the EZ is not to create another cash drain.
This micro view of customer economics provides a foundation for cost-benefit analysis of investment decisions aimed at building stronger customer relationships.
This debate is by no means over, since all the elements that could allow a significant cost-benefit analysis are not yet available.
However, Miron does not consider this to be the full cost-benefit analysis.
Are they going to be part of the review on cost-benefit analysis?
Such a decision would be based on an extensive cost-benefit analysis that would need to satisfy members of VW Group's board of management.
And investments, including the Underground's current star project, the Jubilee Line extension, have sometimes been guided more by political considerations than by careful cost-benefit analysis.
But the audit is reportedly not going to include a cost-benefit analysis, owing to the difficulty of quantifying such aspects of EU membership as foreign affairs influence.
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