Regulatory (In)Justice: Racism and CBA Review, by Melissa J. Luttrell and Jorge Roman-Romero
Introduction The thesis of our symposium contribution, which builds on our prior scholarship critiquing the methodologies used in centralized regulatory review, is that agency reliance on fully quantitative cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to set regulatory limits on risk tends to generate racially biased outcomes in many areas of risk regulation. This worrisome pattern is present in—but […]