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Policy Challenges of the Heterogeneity of the Value of Statistical Life focuses on the variation in VSL both across different studies in the academic ...
Guideposts for a Safer Society
How societyโs undervaluing of life puts all of us at riskโand the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix it Like it or not, sometimes we nee...
A substantially revised and updated new edition of the leading text on business and government, with new material reflecting recent theoretical and me...
Regulating Health and Safety in the Workplace
Commentary on labour legislation concerning occupational safety and occupational health in the USA - reviews the work of the Occupational Safety and H...
Public and Private Responsibilities for Risk
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,...
A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the leading textbook on government and business policy, presenting the key principles underlying sound reg...
Recent high-profile lawsuits involving cigarettes, guns, breast implants, and other products have created new frictions between litigation and regulat...
Detailed surveys examine risk and uncertainty, from classical and foundational work through current developments. Presents coherent summaries of risk ...
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A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal
The 1998 out-of-court settlements of litigation by the states against the cigarette industry totaled $243 billion, making it the largest payoff ever i...
Making the Risky Decision
Are the risks of smoking exaggerated? Has there been an open and rational discussion about the risks of smoking? This book attempts to answer these an...
Their set of original studies of household chemicals, energy audits, and food risk labeling establishes guidelines for the design and evaluation of th...
Consumer and Worker Responses to Hazard Information
Examines how people use label information on hazardous products....
An Investigation of Market Performance
The safety of the workplace is now a highly visible public issue. Many want tighter regulation to reduce worker risk; others find government intervent...
Fasttrack Management and Organizational Behavior by James S. Sagner, PhD Published by Fasttrack Textbooks Why do we need another book on management an...
Wages, Workers' Compensation, and Product Liability
In this major new work, Michael J. Moore and W. Kip Viscusi explore the question, "How are workers compensated for exposing themselves to the risk of ...
The Spatial and Political Dimensions of Hazardous Waste Policy
"By matching agency decision data to detailed census information using geographic information systems (GIS) technology, the authors show that most haz...
The 1996 Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures
Rational Risk Policy is based on Viscusi's Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures, delivered at Lund University in 1996. The organizing principle of these lectur...
This law school casebook was developed by a team of professors at Harvard Law School to introduce students with little or no quantitative background t...
How Juries Decide
Over the past two decades, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in the number and magnitude of punitive damages verdicts rendered by juries ...
A Federal Responsibility
Or would some labeling strategies actually distort consumers' perceptions of relative risks and impair their ability to make informed choices?...
An Economic Analysis and Policy Prescription
Drawing on liability insurance trends and litigation patterns, Viscusi shows that the products liability crisis is has been developing for decades. He...
The U.S. Perspective
This report provides perspective on product liability crises, liability reforms, the nature of the insurance industry and other key issues concerning ...
The Nader Task Force Report on the Bureau of Reclamation
Exposes the waste of taxpayers' money and despoilation of the natural environment through such projects as the Hoover Dam and the Central Arizona Proj...
Professor Viscusi examines the failure of government institutions to address common inadequacies in individual cost-benefit analyses because of irrati...
Hazardous wastes often head the public's list of environmental concerns. Exaggerated estimates of cancer epidemics arising from waste sites generate a...
The mad cow disease crisis in the United Kingdom (U.K.) was a major policy disaster. The government and public health officials failed to identify the...
Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on the Bureau of Reclamation
Scrutinizes projects and benefit-cost procedures of the Bureau of Reclamation and proposes immediate reform...