Thomas Tacker

Rethinking Consumer Protection

Escaping Death by Regulation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains how revamped consumer protection regulations, allowing greater individual choice, along with the government partially shifting to more of an advisory role, can save many thousands of lives annually, and make medicines and other products radically cheaper. Major case studies include the FDA and Uber versus taxis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781498577410
• ISBN-10: 1498577415
• Artikelnr.: 56743693

Autorenporträt

By Thomas Tacker

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Economic Foundations of Morality and Consumer Wellbeing
Chapter 2 New Medicines and Our Dangerous Quest for Certainty
Chapter 3 Saving Lives with a Better, Safer FDA
Chapter 4 How Uber Innovated to Save Lives and Why Taxis Never Did
Chapter 5 Business Reality versus Cultural Perception
Chapter 6 Is Air Travel Too Safe, and Do We Need the TSA Monopoly?
Chapter 7 Toward More Safety, More Choices and Lower Prices