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.
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.
By law, CMS is prohibited from doing cost-effectiveness analysis, but as The Legal Pulse has previously noted, the ethic of factoring cost into coverage decisions permeates the agency to the point where its employees have conducted their own, independent research on the cost of certain drugs.
FORBES: Obama's New Medicare Head: A Fan of Health Care Rationing?
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.
FORBES: White House Says Costs Will Not Factor Into Afghanistan Drawdown Decision--Really????
"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.
Sometimes, the firm does a cost-benefits analysis and realizes that Jill is less costly than Jack.
FORBES: Arbitrators Say Deutsche Bank Securities Managing Director's Conduct Was Reprehensible
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 .
FORBES: IRS Run Amok: Agency Illegally Helping Foreign Governments Collect Taxes?
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.
FORBES: Sign Your Fiduciary Declaration Now and Tell Mary Schapiro You Want Action
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.
ECONOMIST: Church of England: Counting the doomsday option | The
Admittedly, forecasting and cost-benefit analysis on big, long-term projects such as this amount to little more than complicated guesswork.
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.
Proponents argue that such cost-benefit analysis has to figure into health-care decisions, and that any medical system rations care in some way.
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.
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.
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.
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.
应用推荐