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Title:

Risks, costs, and lives saved : getting better results from regulation / edited by Robert W. Hahn.

Publisher:

AEI Press,
AEI Press,

Copyright Date:

1996

Description:

xvi, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Risk assessment--Government policy--United States.
Health risk assessment--Government policy--United States.
Environmental risk assessment--Government policy--United States.
Risk management--Government policy--United States.
Safety regulations--United States.

Other Authors:

Hahn, Robert William.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

The dangers of unbounded commitments to regulate risk / W. Kip Viscusi. The causes and prevention of cancer : gaining perspectives on the mangement of risk / Bruce N. Ames, Lois Swirsky Gold -- Modeling risk at low levels of exposure / William R. Hendee -- Risk assessment as an indicator for decision making / Bernard D. Goldstein -- Science and politics : global warming and eugenics / Richard S. Lindzen -- Benefit-cost analysis : do the benefits exceed the costs? / Lester B. Lave -- The dangers of unbounded commitments to regulate risk / W. Kip Viscusi.
Regulatory reform : what do the government's numbers tell us? / Robert W. Hahn. Making sense of risk : an agenda for congress / John D. Graham -- Regulatory reform : what do the government's numbers tell us? / Robert W. Hahn.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34282022
(OCoLC)35830177

LCCN:

96033644

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)