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Pricing lives [electronic resource]: guideposts for a safer society / W. Kip Viscusi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 digital resource (xi, 273 pages) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691179212
  • 9780691179216
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.3/82 23
LOC classification:
  • HD7262 .V54 2018
Contents:
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.
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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.

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