Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-11-2009
Abstract
This chapter reviews a range of topics connected to the justification of government regulation, including: the definition of “regulation”; welfarism, Kaldor-Hicks efficiency, and the Pareto principles; the fundamental theorems of welfare economics and the “market failure” framework for justifying regulation, which identifies different ways in which the conditions for those theorems may fail to hold true (such as externalities, public goods, monopoly power, and imperfect information); the Coase theorem; and the different forms of regulation.
Keywords
Administrative law and regulation, regulation defined, moral evaluation of regulation, economic rationales for regulation, welfarism, Kaldor-Hicks principle, Pareto principle, welfare economics, market failure, externalities, public goods and monopoly power, The Coase Theorem, information and paternalism as rationales for regulation, regulatory forms and regulatory choice criteria
Publication Title
A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory
Repository Citation
Adler, Matthew D., "Regulatory Theory" (2009). All Faculty Scholarship. 301.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/301
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Administrative Law Commons, Economic Theory Commons, Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Political Economy Commons, Public Economics Commons, Public Law and Legal Theory Commons, Social Welfare Law Commons
Publication Citation
Forthcoming in Dennis Paterson, ed., A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory (Cambridge U. Press).