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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Viscusi, W. Kip (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Life expectancy > Valuation > United States.
Life > Economic aspects > United States.
Espérance de vie > États-Unis > Évaluation.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Business Law.
Life > Economic aspects
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. How Pricing Lives Saves Lives
  • 2. How the Government Values Risks to Life
  • 3. Hazards of Corporate Valuations of Product Risks
  • 4. Corporate Risk Analyses and Regulatory Sanctions: Lessons from the GM Ignition Switch Recall
  • 5. Devaluation of Life: Should Age Matter?
  • 6. Should There Be Preferential Treatment of the Rich?
  • 7. Promoting Risk Equity through Equitable Risk Tradeoffs
  • 8. Fine-Tuning the Selection of the Pertinent VSL
  • 9. How the Courts Value Lives
  • 10. Setting Safety Guideposts for Private and Public Institutions.

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