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The Politics of “Regulatory Unreasonableness”: Bardach and Kagan's Going by the Book

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1983 

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1 Eugene Bardach & Robert A. Kagan, Going by the Book: The Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982).Google Scholar

2 Kelman, Steven, Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique, 5 Regulation 33, 35 (1981).Google Scholar

3 Id. at 35–36.Google Scholar

4 Arthur M. Okun, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff 13 (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1975).Google Scholar

5 Kelman, supra note 2, at 36.Google Scholar

6 Compare Bruce A. Ackerman, Social Justice in the Liberal State 212–17 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1980).Google Scholar

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11 Mass opinion is generally opposed to greater government intervention in the marketplace: see The Gallup Report, No. 193 (Oct. 1981); but compare substantial rates of mass public approval of regulation of barbiturates, of advertiser honesty, of prescription drug safety, of oil and gas prices, of bank interest rates, and of automobile safety in a February 1982 survey by the Roper Organization published in 5 Pub. Opinion 23 (1982). Different mass public reactions to abstractions (like “greater government intervention”) vs. particulars (e.g., prescription drug safety) is well known. Compare Samuel Krislov, The Supreme Court and Political Freedom ch. 1 (New York: Free Press, 1%8).Google Scholar

12 See Mnookin, Robert H. & Komhauser, Lewis, Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law: The Case of Divorce, 88 Yale L. Rev. 950 (1979); compare Marc Galanter, The Radiating Effects of Courts, in Keith O. Boyum & Lynn Mather, eds., Empirical Theories About Courts 115 (New York: Longman, 1982).Google Scholar