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The challenge is for regulators to set rules with benefits that exceed their costs.
A high proportion of my students' papers invoke the cost-benefit principle, which says that a rational person should take only those actions whose benefits exceed their costs.
It was not seriously applied until the 1936 U.S. Flood Control Act, which required that the benefits of flood-control projects exceed their costs.
The O.M.B. is required by law to tally benefits as well as costs as best it can, and it has concluded that, in general, the benefits of regulations exceed their costs to society.
It may strike some readers as absurdly high, yet that is the threshold being used today by U.S. regulators in determining whether the benefits of life-saving regulations exceed their costs.
A recent study of the Clean Air Act showed "the public health and environmental benefits... exceed their costs by a margin of four to one".
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They can either exceed their cost saving targets, develop a new project or engage in some corporate activity to add value.
Students must request additional loan funds that exceed their cost of attendance in writing.
The price of the products are pretty cheap, you're on your way to saving the planet, and I'm sure the value they provide exceed their cost.
Benefit-cost analyses have indicated that the returns to preschool programs with standards that are much stricter and more costly standards than set by our benchmarks far exceed their cost.
There's a good reason why a majority of Americans support strong public health and environmental safeguards: They provide considerable benefits that far exceed their cost.
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