Fatal Tradeoffs
Public and Private Responsibilities for Risk
Ideally, it would be desirable if we could all adopt a high-minded commitment to a risk-free existence. Unfortunately, such an objective is beyond our reach--politicians who advocate higher taxes rarely get elected and economists who indicate that our resources are limited are often portrayedas purveyors of pessimism. Fatal Tradeoffs culminates and synthesizes the research of the government's expert on the value of life and risk regulation. This volume presents Viscusi's work in the social regulation of risk, this volume covers topics relating to the value and empirical estimates oflife, the rationality of individual responses to risk, and th…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-510293-2
- EAN: 9780195102932
- Produktnummer: 9735129
- Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.1 cm 454 g
- Abbildungen: line figures, tables
- Gewicht: 454
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