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Unless you've had some experience with one federal agency that has long used "benefit-cost ratio" as a supposed guide to decision-making: the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Harry Shearer: The President's Panacea for Business Regs: The Cost-Benefit Ratio Harry Shearer 2011
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The Corps may be unique among federal agencies in its willingness and ability to, let's be gentle, massage the benefit-cost analysis process.
Harry Shearer: The President's Panacea for Business Regs: The Cost-Benefit Ratio Harry Shearer 2011
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One of the main reasons that air pollution regulations have such a positive benefit-cost ratio is that environmental regulations reduce the cost of health care.
Steven Cohen: Rick Perry's Fossilized Jobs Program Steven Cohen 2011
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Balaker is struck by the pie chart in the OMB report, which shows that most government programs fail to pass a benefit-cost test.
Government Performance Effectiveness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Unless you've had some experience with one federal agency that has long used "benefit-cost ratio" as a supposed guide to decision-making.
Harry Shearer: The President's Panacea for Business Regs: The Cost-Benefit Ratio Harry Shearer 2011
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And, as documented in The Big Uneasy, the Corps is also known to claim that emergency conditions prevented it from conducting benefit-cost analyses when, in fact, a Corps whistleblower pointed to documented evidence that precisely such an analysis existed.
Harry Shearer: The President's Panacea for Business Regs: The Cost-Benefit Ratio Harry Shearer 2011
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But more importantly, my guess is that if you ran a pilot program with a control group getting no paternalistic interventions and a treatment group getting the paternalistic interventions Brad advocates, you would not see favorable benefit-cost results (maybe you would among the poorest 10 percent of the population).
Brad DeLong's Health Care Prescription, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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[O] il companies make decisions about where to drill, and which safety equipment to use, based on benefit-cost analyses of the impact on their bottom line.
Chris Kromm: Outdated Law Gives Oil Companies Incentives to Spill 2010
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And so the math doesn't add up, but also here just the benefit-cost analysis doesn't seem to make sense for me.
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It is the law ' s requirement for regulatory decision-making based on benefit-cost analysis.
The EPA 2010
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