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Commentary on Jim Tozzi, “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Past, Present, and Future”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2020

Christopher DeMuth
Christopher DeMuth*
Affiliation:
Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute, 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20004, 202-974-6451, e-mail: cdemuth@hudson.org
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Jim Tozzi is an activist institutional economist. During his 19-year career in the federal civil service, he was a pertinacious institution builder, armed with a PhD in economics but never flaunting it. He gained a reputation, richly deserved in my experience, as a supreme bureaucratic tactician. But he applied his skills to antibureaucratic purposes. Incessantly, and occasionally at professional risk, he promoted and protected internal executive-branch procedures that used economic analysis, and measures of administrative effectiveness, against the incessant forces of political entropy, agency parochialism, and special-interest capture.

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Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Spring 2020 , pp. 41 - 48
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© Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2020

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Christopher DeMuth is a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute. He was chairman of the White House Environmental Policy Task Force in 1969–1970 and administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, in 1981–1984, when Jim Tozzi was a deputy administrator in 1981–1983.

References

Tozzi, Jim. 2019. “Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs: Past, Present, and Future.” Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 11(1). doi:10.1017/bca.2019.26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar