Consumer safety regulation: putting a price on life and limb

1. Consumer Safety: The Basic Issues; 2. The Institutional Setting: An Overview of Consumer Safety Policies in the United States and Great Britain; 3. Why Public Protection: Traditional Economic Arguments; 4. Why Public Protection: Nontraditional and "Noneconomic" Arguments; 5. The Analytics of Misperception; 6. Policy Formulation in the Major Regulatory Agencies; 7. Policy Evaluations: The Evidence; 8. Consumer Safety Regulation and Consumer Welfare; Bibliography; Index of Cases; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.