Fatal tradeoffs : public and private responsibilities for risk / / by W. Kip Viscusi

• Autore: Viscusi W. Kip
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1992
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.1
• Soggetto topico: Risk; Decision making; Life - Economic aspects; Safety regulations - Economic aspects
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 1992.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. The Fundamental Role of Risk Tradeoffs; 2. Strategic and Ethical Issues in the Valuation of Life; 3. Evidence on the Value of Life: Case Studies from the Labor Market; 4. A Survey of Values of Risks to Life and Health; 5. Social Insurance for Work and Product Injuries; 6. Rational Models of Biases in Risk Perception; 7. Behavioral Anomalies and Paradoxes in Choices under Uncertainty; 8. Sources of Inconsistency in Societal Responses to Health Risks; 9. Risk within Reason; 10. Cotton Dust Regulation: An OSHA Success Story? ; 11. The Impact of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation, 1972-197512. The Impact of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation, 1973-1983; 13. Consumer Behavior and the Safety Effects of Consumer Product Safety Regulation; 14. The Mis-Specified Agenda: The 1980's Reforms of Health, Safety, and Environmental Regulation; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Examining issues related to the social regulation of risk, this volume contains essays on the value of life, empirical estimates of the value of life, the rationality of individual responses to risk, the effect of government risk regulation efforts, and the role of the courts and insurance.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fatal Tradeoffs
• ISBN: 0-19-771017-4; 1-280-45240-4; 0-19-802369-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815943803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.