Pricing lives [electronic resource]: guideposts for a safer society /
Viscusi, W. Kip,
Pricing lives [electronic resource]: guideposts for a safer society / W. Kip Viscusi. - 1 digital resource (xi, 273 pages) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-259) and index.
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: lessons from the GM ignition switch recall -- The devaluation of life: should age matter? -- 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.
0691179212 9780691179216
2018932156
Hazardous occupations.
Age and employment.
Life--Valuation--United States.
Life expectancy--Valuation--United States.
Life--Economic aspects--United States.
Age and employment.
Hazardous occupations.
Life--Valuation.
Life--Economic aspects.
United States.
HD7262 / .V54 2018
658.3/82
Pricing lives [electronic resource]: guideposts for a safer society / W. Kip Viscusi. - 1 digital resource (xi, 273 pages) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-259) and index.
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: lessons from the GM ignition switch recall -- The devaluation of life: should age matter? -- 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.
0691179212 9780691179216
2018932156
Hazardous occupations.
Age and employment.
Life--Valuation--United States.
Life expectancy--Valuation--United States.
Life--Economic aspects--United States.
Age and employment.
Hazardous occupations.
Life--Valuation.
Life--Economic aspects.
United States.
HD7262 / .V54 2018
658.3/82