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1. Reforming Regulatory Impact Analysis

   Edited by Winston Harrington, Lisa Heinzerling, Richard Morgenstern

   Over the past decades, considerable debate has emerged surrounding the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to analyze and make recommendations for environmental and safety regulations. Critics argue that CBA forces values on unquantifiable factors, that it does not adequately measure benefits across...

   Published June 30th 2009 by Routledge
2. Reality Check

   "The Nature and Performance of Voluntary Environmental Programs in the United States, Europe, and Japan"

   Edited by Richard D. Morgenstern, William A. Pizer

   Since the early 1990s, voluntary programs have played an increasingly prominent role in environmental management in the U.S. and other industrialized countries. Programs have attempted to address problems ranging from climate change and energy efficiency, to more localized air and water pollution...

   Published January 22nd 2007 by Routledge
3. New Approaches on Energy and the Environment

   Policy Advice for the President

   Edited by Richard D. Morgenstern, Paul Portney

   Written by economists and policy analysts at Resources for the Future, a Washington, DC, think tank with a tradition for independent, objective research, this collection of twenty-five 'memos to the President' offers constructive policy options for the elected administration on critical challenges...

   Published November 17th 2004 by Routledge
4. Choosing Environmental Policy

   Comparing Instruments and Outcomes in the United States and Europe

   Edited by Winston Harrington, Richard D. Morgenstern, Thomas Sterner

   The two distinct approaches to environmental policy include direct regulation-sometimes called 'command and control' policies-and regulation by economic, or market-based incentives. This book is the first to compare the costs and outcomes of these approaches by examining realworld applications. In...

   Published September 15th 2004 by Routledge
5. Economic Analyses at EPA

   Assessing Regulatory Impact

   By Richard D. Morgenstern

   For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has been conducting programmatic 'economic analyses,' also known as Regulatory Impact Analyses (RIAs), to assess the economic effects of its regulatory efforts. This important volume explains the purpose of these analyses, along with their design,...

   Published June 24th 1997 by RFF Press