W. Kip Viscusi is the award-winning author of more than 20 books and 300 articles, most of which deal with different aspects of health and safety risks. His pathbreaking research had addressed a wide range of individual and societal responses to risk and uncertainty, including risky behaviors, governmental regulation, and tort liability.
Télécharger le livre :  Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty

The need to understand the theories and applications of economic and finance risk has been clear to everyone since the financial crisis, and this collection of original essays proffers broad, high-level explanations of risk and uncertainty.The economics of risk and...
Editeur : North Holland
Parution : 2013-11-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Rational Risk Policy

Rational Risk Policy is based on Viscusi's Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures, delivered at Lund University in 1996. The organizing principle of these lectures is that the irrationality of individual decisions is often embodied in government regulations. Rather than overcoming...
Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-03-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Fatal Tradeoffs

Ideally, it would be desirable if we could all adopt a high-minded commitment to a risk-free existence. Unfortunately, such an objective is beyond our reach--politicians who advocate higher taxes rarely get elected and economists who indicate that our resources are...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 1992-08-13

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