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Risk by Choice : Regulating Health and Safety in the Workplace / W. Kip Viscusi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Viscusi, W. Kip, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial hygiene--United States.
- Industrial hygiene.
- Industrial safety--United States.
- Industrial safety.
- Industrial policy--United States.
- Industrial policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (212 pages)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- 1. RISK AND INDIVIDUAL CHOICE
- 2 OSHA: DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION, AND IMPACT
- 3. COMPENSATING DIFFERENTIALS FOR RISK
- 4. MARKET FORCES AND INADEQUATE RISK INFORMATION
- 5. THE BASIS FOR GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION
- 6. THE VALUE OF LIFE AND LIMB
- 7. HOW ΤΟ SET STANDARDS IF YOU MUST
- 8. THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF RISK REGULATION POLICIES
- 9. CONTROLLING RISKS THROUGH INDIVIDUAL CHOICE
- APPENDIX NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
- APPENDIX ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE QUIT PROCESS
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-18621-4
- OCLC:
- 1024034259
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