About CPR's Perspectives Series
The Center for Progressive Reform supports constructive and responsible
regulatory action to protect health, safety, and the environment,
and rejects the conservative view that government’s only function
is to increase the economic efficiency of private markets. CPR’s
Perspectives Series is a set of monographs by CPR scholars
on timely and important regulatory debates. Each Perspective provides
a thumbnail sketch of the competing arguments concerning a substantive
or procedural principle for developing appropriate health, safety
and environmental policies. Each Perspective closes with a statement
of CPR’s proposed approach to the issue.
The views expressed in each Perspective represent consensus views
of CPR scholars, although not every scholar endorses every view.
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