Cost-benefit proponents are covert collectivists despite claiming state neutrality.

Evidence

Even to speak of a “costbenefi t state” is to speak of an entity about which it makes pragmatic sense to ascribe a method of decision making and a responsibility to follow that method. As noted above, proponents of costbenefi t analysis can in fact be seen as closet collectivists who seek to bind citizens together into a welfaremaximization compact. — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere, 160

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cost-benefit analysis’s appearance of rationality masks its insensitivity to systemic, long-term context — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 16; Groups invoke state neutrality only when they cannot dominate it

Broader Connections

• Groups invoke state neutrality only when they cannot dominate it #expands (0.80)