| Contents |
Pricing the priceless -- Was environmental protection ever a good idea? -- The unbearable lightness of regulatory costs -- Precaution, uncertainty, and dioxin -- The economics of atrazine -- Ignoring the benefits of pesticides regulation -- Mad cows and computer models -- Costs of preventable childhood illness -- Phasing out a problem plastic -- The costs of REACH -- Impacts of REACH on developing countries -- How should the US respond to REACH? -- Conclusion: economics and precautionary policies. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-309) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007040654 |
| ISBN | 9781597264006 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1597264008 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781597264013 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1597264016 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
