Ultimate Price : The Value We Place on Life /

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How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety. These price...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Friedman, Howard Steven (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]
Temas:
Equality.
Social values > Political aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General.
abortion.
compensation.
corporate dumping.
corporations.
criminal justice.
death.
economics.
economy.
ethics.
health insurance.
health.
healthcare.
human life.
inequality.
insurance.
laws.
lawsuits.
legal settlements.
legal system.
morality.
nonfiction.
parenting.
philosophy.
political science.
politics.
poverty.
precarity.
public policy.
race.
reproductive rights.
safe water.
science.
social issues.
social justice.
social policy.
toxic waste.
undervalued lives.
value.
wealth inequality.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Your Money or Your Life?
  • 2. When the Towers Fell
  • 3. Justice Is Not Blind
  • 4. A Little More Arsenic in Your Water
  • 5. Maximizing Profits at Whose Expense?
  • 6. I Want to Die the Way Grandpa Did
  • 7. To Be Young Again
  • 8. Can We Afford a Little One?
  • 9. Broken Calculators
  • 10. What's Next?
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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