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245 1 0 |a Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decision Making :  |b Report of a Conference. 
260 |a Washington :  |b National Academies Press,  |c 1990. 
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505 0 |a Valuing Health Risks, Costs, and Benefits for Environmental Decision Making -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- RISK ASSESSMENT AND BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS -- REGULATORY PRACTICE -- CONTINUING ISSUES -- Contextual And Legal Constraints -- Approaches To Analysis -- How Much Information? -- Handling Uncertainty -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 2 The Making Of Cruel Choices -- 3 The Politics Of Benefit-Cost Analysis -- ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS -- Thinking Like Lawyers -- Ravenous Bureaucrats -- Media Hype 
505 8 |a Public Opinion And Political CultureCONGRESS: KEYSTONE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ESTABLISHMENT -- Omb: The Eye of The Storm -- The Health-Only Canard -- THE FEDERAL COURTS -- Rule-Making Procedures -- Reading Statutes -- REGULATORY AGENCIES -- ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 4 Benefit-Cost Analysis As A Source Of Information About Welfare -- SCOPE AND COMPREHENSIVENESS -- MEASURING COSTS AND BENEFITS AT PARTICULAR POINTS IN TIME -- Diminishing Marginal Utility In The Intrapersonal Case 
505 8 |a Diminishing Marginal Utility In The Interpersonal CasePreferences Involving Poor Information Or Other Cognitive Defects -- Preferences Not Related To Welfare -- The Absence Of Appropriate Markets -- MEASURING COSTS AND BENEFITS OVER TIME -- When Saving Is Optimal -- When Saving Is Not Optimal -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 5 Comparing Values In Environmental Policies: Moral Issues And Moral Arguments -- METHODS OF REASONING ABOUT MORALITY -- Empirical Approaches To Moral Issues -- Arguing From Theory or Basic Doctrines 
505 8 |a VALUING AND DISCOUNTING LIVES IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIESTHE SOCIAL DISCOUNT RATE -- SHOULD LIVES BE DISCOUNTED? -- Democracy And Consumer Sovereignty -- Excessive Sacrifice -- Indefinite Delay -- A Paradox -- WHAT SHOULD THE DISCOUNT RATE BE? -- PUTTING A PRICE ON LIFE -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- 6 Environmental Policy Making: Act Now Or Wait For More Information? -- IRREVERSIBILITY AND THE BIAS TOWARD WAITING -- WAITING AND SUNKEN COSTS -- Diesel Emissions -- Cyanazine -- Ethylene Dibromide -- REGULATION AS RESEARCH 
505 8 |a CHLOROFLUOROCARBONSCONCLUDING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 7 Choice Under Uncertainty: Problems Solved And Unsolved -- THE EXPECTED UTILITY MODEL -- The Classical Perspective: Cardinal Utility And Attitudes Toward Risk -- A Modern Perspective: Linearity In The Probabilities As A Testable Hypothesis -- VIOLATIONS OF LINEARITY IN TILE PROBABILITIES -- The Allais Paradox And Fanning Out -- Additional Evidence Of Fanning Out -- Non-Expected Utility Models Of Preferences -- THE PREFERENCE REVERSAL PHENOMENON -- The Evidence 
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