Pro-Cost-Benefit but Anti-Dudley
by Guest Blogger, 8/7/2006
Be sure to check out Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal on the Dudley nomination. DeLong supports the role of cost-benefit analysis in regulatory decisionmaking, but he is nonetheless not a kindred spirit of Dudley:
I had always thought that the benefit-cost ratio from flame-retardant pajamas was high. The fact that Susan Dudley sees this as an example of government overreach.... As someone who believes in getting the benefit-cost analysis right, I find this... disturbing.
Stay tuned for the upcoming issue of OMB Watch's biweekly newsletter, The Watcher, for more on the White House's decision to nominate the radical Dudley.