The Cost-Benefit Revolution (The MIT Press): Sunstein, Cass R.: …
In the past, much of what has passed for cost-benefit analysis is really wishful thinking, based upon hopes, investments, or other imagined happenings, that might, or might not, become realized. Within a regulatory framework, those charged with creating rules for producers and consumers of economic goods need to be as careful as possible to keep their assessment sober minded and realistic.