Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work, and the Value of Human Life

by Peter Dorman

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In this book the author examines and ultimately rejects the conventional economic view that workers who have more dangerous jobs accept their risks voluntarily and are compensated through higher wages. In doing so, he attacks widely used techniques for assigning a monetary value to human life for cost-benefit analysis and other purposes. Arguments are drawn from the history of occupational safety and health, econometric analysis of wage and risk data,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521553067

ISBN13:9780521553063

Release Date:February 1996

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Business Business & Investing Economic History Economic Policy Economic Policy & Development Economic Theory Economics Ethics Labor & Industrial Relations Political Science

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