Risk and reason : safety, law, and the environment / Cass R. Sunstein.
2002
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Title
Risk and reason : safety, law, and the environment / Cass R. Sunstein.
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Call Number
HD61 .S86 2002
ISBN
0521791995
Description
x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)48943694
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Magnitudes, Tradeoffs, and Tools
1
1
Beyond 1970s Environmentalism
10
2
Thinking About Risks
28
3
Are Experts Wrong?
53
4
This Month's Risk (with Timur Kuran)
78
5
Reducing Risks Rationally
99
6
Health-Health Tradeoffs
133
7
The Arithmetic of Arsenic
153
8
Of Courts and Law: Cost-Benefit Default Principles
191
9
Cleaning the Air
229
10
Tools
251
Afterword: On Consequences and Technocrats
289
App. A
Worldwide Health Statistics
296
App. B
Statistical Risks: U.S. General Mortality Trends
301
App. C
Cost-Benefit Numbers for Ozone and Particulates
311
App. D
Dose-Response Curves
318
Acknowledgments
325
Index
327