Precautionary Federalism

About this Episode

Despite the fact that our show is pretty much the opposite of careful, we discuss precaution, regulation, and institutional choice with Sarah Light. The environmental and other effects of Uber and Lyft are complicated. If they’re very hard to calculate and understand, how should we regulate them to address their harms? With uncertain webs of causation, can the precautionary principle tell us not simply whether to regulate but who should regulate? Sarah thinks so.

This show’s links:

• Sarah Light's faculty profile and writing
• Sarah Light, Precautionary Federalism and the Sharing Economy
• Lisa Rayle, Susan Shaheen, Nelson Chan, Danielle Dai, and Robert Cervero, App-Based, On-Demand Ride Services: Comparing Taxi and Ridesourcing Trips and Use
• Shared-Use Mobility Center, Shared Mobility and the Transformation of Public Transit
• Cass Sunstein, Beyond the Precautionary Principle
• Cass Sunstein, Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle
• Robert Hahn and Cass Sunstein, The Precautionary Principle as a Basis for Decision Making