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Valuing life : humanizing the regulatory state / Cass R. Sunstein

Sunstein, Cass R., 1954-

Chicago [u.a.] : The University of Chicago Press, 2014

248 S. ; 24 cm

Englisch

Franklin's algebraInside government -- Human consequences, or the real world of cost-benefit analysis -- Dignity, financial meltdown, and other nonquantifiable things -- Valuing life, 1: problems -- Valuing life, 2: solutions -- The morality of risk -- What scares us -- Epilogue: four ways to humanize the regulatory state -- Appendix A: Executive Order 13563 of January 18, 2011 -- Appendix B: the social cost of carbon -- Appendix C: estimates of benefits and costs of selected federal regulations -- Appendix D: selected examples of breakeven analysis -- Appendix E: values for mortality and morbidity.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-236) and index

978-0-226-78017-7 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

978-0-226-12942-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2013035153

OCoLC: 891652215     

OCoLC: 891652215 (aus SWB)     

PI 4130  | MG 70900      Ähnliche Literatur

JK468.P64

306.20973

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LOC-SH: United States -- Office of Management and Budget -- Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs ; Administrative agencies -- Social aspects -- United States ; Administrative procedure -- Social aspects -- United States