Cass R. Sunstein, Columnist

Cost-Benefit Analysis Faded Under Trump. Biden Can Fix That.

The best way for the new president to drain the old one’s regulatory swamp is to follow Obama’s rule-making advice.

November 18, 2020 at 4:09 PM UTC

Cass R. Sunstein is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He is the author of “The Cost-Benefit Revolution” and a co-author of “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness.”

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President-elect Joe Biden just got an excellent suggestion about how to approach regulation of food safety, clean air, clean water, highway accidents and occupational health.

It comes from a brief but illuminating passage in “The Promised Land,” the new memoir by his former boss, President Barack Obama: