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Rethinking Consumer Protection Thomas Tacker

Rethinking Consumer Protection By Thomas Tacker

Rethinking Consumer Protection by Thomas Tacker


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This book explains how revamped consumer protection regulations, allowing greater individual choice, along with the government partially shifting to more of an advisory role, can save many thousands of lives annually, and make medicines and other products radically cheaper. Major case studies include the FDA and Uber versus taxis.

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Rethinking Consumer Protection: Escaping Death by Regulation by Thomas Tacker

For many decades consumer protection laws have focused on preventing bad choices. Though that approach has some value, this book explains we are much more often harmed, even killed, by the needless delay of new inventions that could save lives or vastly improve life quality. Thomas Tacker explains how we can revamp regulation to embrace inventions that save and improve lives while still holding companies accountable for actions that harm consumers. Case studies include price gouging, the FDA approval process, airport passenger screening, and occupational licensing, particularly as it relates to Uber. This book demonstrates that enacting appropriate liability laws and providing information to guide consumers, rather than strictly controlling their choices, will save thousands of lives annually, increase consumer freedom, and make life more enjoyable.

About Thomas Tacker

Thomas Tacker is professor of economics at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Florida.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Economic Foundations of Morality and Consumer Wellbeing Chapter 2 New Medicines and Our Dangerous Quest for Certainty Chapter 3 Saving Lives with a Better, Safer FDA Chapter 4 How Uber Innovated to Save Lives and Why Taxis Never Did Chapter 5 Business Reality versus Cultural Perception Chapter 6 Is Air Travel Too Safe, and Do We Need the TSA Monopoly? Chapter 7 Toward More Safety, More Choices and Lower Prices

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CIN1498577415G
9781498577410
1498577415
Rethinking Consumer Protection: Escaping Death by Regulation by Thomas Tacker
Used - Good
Hardback
Lexington Books
20190715
188
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