A number of OECD countries make extensive use of cost benefit analysis (CBA) to help inform environmental policy decisions. This discussion panel will reflect on this use and take stock of recent ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fred L. Smith Jr. Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal ...

One problem: Voters aren't buying it. President Biden recently promised to “modernize” regulatory review, and that includes a major overhaul of how agencies measure the benefits and costs of their ...

The Biden Administration is revising the rules for how agencies conduct cost-benefit analyses, and some CBA experts have expressed concerns. Earlier this year, President Biden issued an Executive ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fred L. Smith Jr. Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Some aspire to understand whether federal regulations on the ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the U.S. government has had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for national security ...

The cost avoidance of heart failure–related hospitalizations and emergency department visits may outweigh the additional drug cost in Medicaid members adherent to sacubitril/valsartan. Objective: To ...

The arrival of the palm oil industry in Indonesia’s Papua region has wrought more than five times as much environmental and social damage than the benefits it has delivered, according to a new ...

Toxic and even deadly train wrecks like the one in East Palestine, Ohio, are the high cost of a regulatory system rigged to favor big corporations over the needs of ordinary Americans. One of the ...