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<DIV><DIV><P>Since the earliest days of philosophy, thinkers have debated the meaning of the term happiness and the nature of the good life. But it is only in recent years that the study of happiness—or “hedonics”—has developed into a formal field of inquiry, cutting across a broad range of...</p></div></div>
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<DIV>Cost-benefit analysis is a widely used governmental evaluation tool, though academics remain skeptical. This volume gathers prominent contributors from law, economics, and philosophy for discussion of cost-benefit analysis, specifically its moral foundations, applications and limitations.<BR><BR>This...</div>
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<DIV>In<I> How to Humble a Wingnut</I>, leading constitutional scholar, behavioral economist, and former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Cass R. Sunstein examines the unconventional impetuses behind human decision-making. Why it is that people often choose to...</i></div>
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<DIV>The White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) is the United States’s regulatory overseer. In <I>Valuing Life</I>, Cass R. Sunstein draws on his firsthand experience as the Administrator of OIRA from 2009 to 2012 to argue that we <I>can</I> humanize regulation—and save lives in the...</i></i></div>
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