Rethinking Consumer Protection : Escaping Death by Regulation /: Escaping Death by Regulation. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas Tacker.
• Other Names: Tacker, Tom
• Contents: Cover; Rethinking Consumer Protection; Rethinking Consumer Protection: Escaping Death by Regulation; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1; Economic Foundations of Morality and Consumer Well-Being; Price Gouging Confusion; The Real Conflict: Urgent Medical Needs versus the Masses with Spoiling Food; Law of Supply: To get much More Ice with Fast Delivery, Pay a Higher Price; Price Control Problems; Economically Speaking, Voters Still Believe the Earth is the Center of the Universe; What Government Got Right; It's much Harder to Implement Beneficial Regulation than it would seem Narrow Self-Interest Can Be Channeled to Benefit SocietyHelpful Pro-Consumer Regulation Must Take Producer Preferences into Account; Some Notes on Safety; Looking Ahead to the Rest of this Book; Note; Chapter 2; New Medicines and Our Dangerous Quest for Certainty; Our Psychological Flaws in Dealing with Uncertainty; Beginnings of the Modern FDA: The Elixir Sulfanilamide Disaster; The Thalidomide Tragedy Reshapes the FDA; The 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendments, New Tragedies with Less Visible Victims; Adding Estimated Deaths from the Suppression of New Medicines Regulation Failed to Improve EffectivenessDe Facto Deregulation: Off-label Prescriptions; Innovation Makes a Partial Comeback; The Vioxx Disaster; Vioxx: The Surprising Facts and the View of Doctors; The Real Lesson of Vioxx; Drug Approval Delays Are Still Prolonged and Deadly; A Miracle Delayed is a Miracle Denied: The Sluggish Approval of Gleevec; Why Our System Fails Terminal Patients; Fostering Innovation is Safer than Obsessing about Avoiding Mistakes; Notes; Chapter 3; Saving Lives with a Better, Safer FDA; Universal Expanded Access Will Succeed Where All Else Has Failed Universal Expanded Access Would Be Great, But We Can Do Even BetterOptimal Reform: Medical Decisions Without Politics; Should We Let Terminal Patients Try Medicines Before Usual Phase I Trials?; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4; How Uber Innovated to Save Lives and Why Taxis Never Did; Regulation and the Taxi Cartel Fiefdoms; Is there a case to be made in Favor of the Taxi Cartel System?; The Taxi Cartel Perpetuated an Unsafe System; Civil Disobedience in the Uber Revolution; Uber and Friends Fight City Hall and (Usually) Win; Politicians Aligned with the Cartel Strike Back, Sneakily this Time Licensing and Safety IssuesConclusion and Implications of Uber's Rise; Notes; Chapter 5; Business Reality versus Cultural Perception; Why Consumers Love the Riskiest Banks and How to Fix That; How Politicians Warped Private Health Insurance; Some Notes on Morality and Efficiency in Employment Practices; Why Optimal Business Behavior Is Not Perfect; On Human Nature and the Economics of the Media; Our Biased Perceptions; Robber Baron Mythology; Why Innocent Firms Commonly Look Guilty; The Vested Interest of Regulators; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6
• Publisher Details: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 381.3; Consumer protection; Consumer protection -- Law and legislation; Consumers; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498577427; 1498577423
• Related ISBNs: 9781498577410
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed July 17, 2019).
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