Caroline Cecot on Cost-Benefit Analysis

Episode 544 of the Ipse Dixit podcast, hosted by CC0/Public Domain, titled "Caroline Cecot on Cost-Benefit Analysis" was published on April 23, 2020 and runs 34 minutes.

April 23, 2020 ·34m · Ipse Dixit

Summary

In this episode, Caroline Cecot, Assistant Professor of Law at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, discusses her article "Transparency in Agency Cost-Benefit Analysis," which she co-authored with Robert W. Hahn, and which will be published in the Administrative Law Review. Cecot begins by explaining what cost-benefit analysis is and how agencies use it to inform decisionmaking. She explains the role of cost-benefit analysis in agency transparency, and distinguishes between process and policy transparency. She describes their empirical study of agency cost-benefit analysis. And she explains how it should inform our understanding of cost-benefit analysis. Cecot is on Twitter at @CarolineCecot.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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