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Symposium on Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz's "Reviving Rationality"

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Why this is still an important book after the 2020 elections, by E. Donald Elliott

*This is the second post in a series on Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz’s new book, Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health. For other posts in the series, click here. “We must not be deluded into thinking that the characteristic work of Adam Smith is over because the laws […]

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Reviving Rationality: Three Cheers, Four Caveats, by Timothy J. Brennan

*This is the first post in a series on Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz’s new book, Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health. For other posts in the series, click here. I. This recent book by Livermore and Revesz (LR) follows their 2011 book, Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can […]

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Introduction to Our Symposium on Livermore and Revesz’s Reviving Rationality

Over the next two weeks, we have the privilege of hosting a symposium here at Notice and Comment on Michael Livermore and Richard Revesz‘s new book Reviving Rationality: Saving Cost-Benefit Analysis for the Sake of the Environment and Our Health (Oxford University Press, 2021). Reviving Rationality is the sequel to Livermore and Revesz’s seminal 2008 […]