Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. James Broughel is an economist focused on the economics of regulation.

A number of OECD countries make extensive use of cost benefit analysis (CBA) to help inform environmental policy decisions. This discussion panel will reflect on this use and take stock of recent ...

Cost-benefit analysis has become the preferred technique among policy makers for determining when health and environmental risks are serious enough to warrant regulation of the substances or ...

New rules from the Office of Management and Budget will change how the federal government weighs costs, enabling new efforts on climate change and poverty. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Washington ...

On his very first day in office President Joe Biden issued a memorandum directing the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to make “recommendations for improving and modernizing regulatory review.” ...

Daedalus, Vol. 150, No. 3, The Administrative State in the Twenty-First Century: Deconstruction and/or Reconstruction (Summer 2021), pp. 208-219 (12 pages) The American administrative state has become ...

The latest report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is stark. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres describes it as “an atlas of human suffering and a damning ...

Former senior adviser to President Trump Kevin Hassett joined "Cavuto: Coast to Coast" Tuesday and discussed President Biden's handling of the economy and inflation, arguing government spending and ...

The cost avoidance of heart failure–related hospitalizations and emergency department visits may outweigh the additional drug cost in Medicaid members adherent to sacubitril/valsartan. Objective: To ...