Rethinking Consumer Protection - Escaping Death By Regulation

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Thomas Tacker is professor of economics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Tacker, Tacker Thomas
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781498577410
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7741-0
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Public finance, Central government policies, Public finance and taxation