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

By Thomas Tacker

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Tacker, Tacker Thomas
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781498577434
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-7743-4
• No. of pages: 188
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, Political Economy, Central / national / federal government policies, Public finance, Public finance & taxation, Central government policies