Viscusi W. Kip - Pricing Lives Guideposts For A Safer Society - Hardcover Digital Animation Author(s): Tomes Robert R

Author(s): Tomes Robert R

In a moment when the country is desperate to better understand and address gun violence Children Under Fire offers a way to do just that weaving wrenching personal stories into a critical call for the United States to embrace practical reforms that would save thousands of young lives

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Viscusi W. Kip - Pricing Lives Guideposts For A Safer Society - Hardcover Digital Animation Author(s): Tomes Robert RBinding: Hardcover Description: How society's undervaluing of life puts all of us at risk and the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix it Like it or not sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people's lives. In the past government agencies used the financial "cost of death" to monetize the mortality risks of regulatory policies but this method vastly undervalued life. Pricing Lives tells the story of how the government came to adopt an