Title Rational risk policy : the 1996 Arne Ryde memorial lectures / W. Kip Viscusi

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 138 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Introduction 2. Risk Beliefs and Individual Rationality 3. Hazard Warnings and Risk Information 4. The Value of Life 5. Risk Risk Analysis 6. Risk Analysis and Regulatory Policy 7. Liability and Social Insurance 8. Toward a Rational Basis for Regulation Summary Professor Viscusi examines the failure of government institutions to address common inadequacies in individual cost-benefit analyses because of irrational use of individual decision-making methods by government in risk regulation Analysis risico risk overheidsbeleid government policy Government Policy Overheidsbeleid Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-134) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Health risk assessment -- Government policy Environmental risk assessment -- Government policy Technology -- Risk assessment -- Government policy Environmental health. Medical policy. Risk assessment. Environmental Health Health Policy Risk Assessment risk assessment. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues. MEDICAL -- Public Health. MEDICAL -- Health Policy. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery. Risk assessment. Medical policy. Environmental health. Environmental risk assessment -- Government policy. Health risk assessment -- Government policy. Technology -- Risk assessment -- Government policy. Risicoanalyse. Regulering. Technologie -- Evaluation du risque -- Politique publique. Risques pour la sante -- Evaluation -- Politique publique. Environnement -- Evaluation du risque -- Politique publique. SUBJECT United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9780198293637 0198293631 9780191596995 019159699X 1281970638 9781281970633 9786611970635 6611970630

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