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- catalog abstract ""Risk and Reason shows how individual thinking and social interactions lead us in foolish directions. Offering sound proposals for social reform, it explains how a more sensible system of risk regulation, embodied in the idea of a cost-benefit state, could save many thousands of lives and many billions of dollars - and protect the environment in the process."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12616348.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""Risk and Reason shows how individual thinking and social interactions lead us in foolish directions. Offering sound proposals for social reform, it explains how a more sensible system of risk regulation, embodied in the idea of a cost-benefit state, could save many thousands of lives and many billions of dollars - and protect the environment in the process."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Beyond 1970s environmentalism -- Thinking about risks -- Are the experts wrong? -- This month's risk (with Timur Kuran) -- Reducing risks rationally -- Health-health tradeoffs -- The arithmetic of arsenic -- Of courts and law: cost-benefit default principles -- Cleaning the air -- Tools.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 342 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521016258 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0521791995 (hardback)".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "368 21".
- catalog subject "Decision making.".
- catalog subject "HD61 .S86 2002".
- catalog subject "Risk assessment.".
- catalog subject "Risk management.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Beyond 1970s environmentalism -- Thinking about risks -- Are the experts wrong? -- This month's risk (with Timur Kuran) -- Reducing risks rationally -- Health-health tradeoffs -- The arithmetic of arsenic -- Of courts and law: cost-benefit default principles -- Cleaning the air -- Tools.".
- catalog title "Risk and reason : safety, law, and the environment / Cass R. Sunstein.".
- catalog type "text".