How do we assess the costs and benefits of various options?

Criminals prefer unarmed victims.

In the real world, we face trade-offs.

This policy is all costs and no benefits.

Trade-offs exist, even if some of my friends on the left like to pretend otherwise.

Moral panics are not a recipe for good policy.

Environmentalists don’t seem to understand cost-benefit analysis.

To what extent can we quantify the benefits of cutting regulations?

There’s not much evidence that public health efforts made a difference.

Regulations that kill.