Pricing lives : guideposts for a safer society / W. Kip Viscusi.

By: Viscusi, W. Kip [author.]Contributor(s): Jstor - EBAMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018&#x5dDescription: 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781400889587 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Life expectancy -- Valuation -- United States | Life -- Economic aspects -- United States | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Law | Life -- Economic aspects | United StatesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 363.1120979505 LOC classification: HB1322.35.U6Online resources: e-book Full-text access
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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 t
Summary: 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 "co

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 t

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 "co