Pricing Lives : : Guideposts for a Safer Society / / W. Kip Viscusi.
How society's undervaluing of life puts all of us at risk-and the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix itLike it or not, sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people's lives. In the past, government agencies used the financial "cost of death" to monetize the mortal...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 5 b/w illus., 5 tables |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- How Pricing Lives Saves Lives
- How the Government Values Risks to Life
- The Hazards of Corporate Valuations of Product Risks
- Corporate Risk Analyses and Regulatory Sanctions
- The devaluation of life
- Should there be preferential treatment of the rich?
- Promoting risk equity through equitable risk tradeoffs
- Fine- tuning the selection of the pertinent VSL
- How the courts value lives
- Setting safety guideposts for private and public institutions
- Notes
- Index