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Cost-Benefit Analysis Without the B: How Rewriting OIRA’s Past Threatens Its Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2020

Sally Katzen
Sally Katzen*
Affiliation:
Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence, New York University School of Law, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012, USA, e-mail: Sally.Katzen@nyu.edu
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Jim Tozzi has a wealth of knowledge and experience with cost-benefit analysis and centralized review of Executive Branch rulemaking. Mine is more limited, but nonetheless significant.1 And while I may agree with much of what he says in his article “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Past, Present and Future,” (Tozzi, 2019) I do see things differently than he does in a number of respects.

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Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Spring 2020 , pp. 49 - 54
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© Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2020

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