Most importantly, the practice of benefit-cost analysis has been reinforced by decades of bipartisan presidential agreement, ...

Under both the Donald Trump and Joe Biden administrations, the U.S. government has had a seemingly unquenchable thirst for national security regulations limiting investment, trade, and information ...

The social cost of carbon (SCC) quantifies the economic damage associated with emitting a ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Regulatory impact analyses from U.S. federal agencies utilize the ...

Conservatives once promoted cost-benefit analysis to check the administrative state—until it got better at measuring the huge benefits of regulation. It’s the end of an era. The GOP, in the person of ...

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 ...

This activity constitutes Phase 1 of a possible two-part effort directed towards guiding future benefit-cost studies, ensuring greater consistency and comparability across studies, and enhancing the ...

If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ...

The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare presents a transformative frontier, particularly in the global fight against cancer. As healthcare systems worldwide grapple with rising ...