Rational Risk Policy
The 1996 Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures
Seiten
1998
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-829363-7 (ISBN)
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-829363-7 (ISBN)
'Rational Risk Policy' provides a comprehensive and accessible synthesis of Viscusi's important and well-known work on risk policy. The new material developed in this book explores the various forms of irrationality exemplified in individual risk behaviour, and the role government policy has played in institutionalising these same kinds of biases.
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 the inadequacies in individual risk beliefs and behaviour, governmental regulations often institutionalize them.
Viscusi examines how consumers and workers perceive risk and the implications of these risk beliefs and behavioural responses to risk for government policy. Hazard warnings efforts, direct regulation, and liability are among the alternative modes of intervention. The role of risk tradeoffs with respect to the value of life as well as the consequences of wasteful regulatory expenditures are considered in a discussion of riskrisk analysis. Rational Risk Policy also includes a critique of the risk analysis practices used by government agencies as well as a consideration of how liability and social insurance should be integrated into a rational risk management strategy.
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 the inadequacies in individual risk beliefs and behaviour, governmental regulations often institutionalize them.
Viscusi examines how consumers and workers perceive risk and the implications of these risk beliefs and behavioural responses to risk for government policy. Hazard warnings efforts, direct regulation, and liability are among the alternative modes of intervention. The role of risk tradeoffs with respect to the value of life as well as the consequences of wasteful regulatory expenditures are considered in a discussion of riskrisk analysis. Rational Risk Policy also includes a critique of the risk analysis practices used by government agencies as well as a consideration of how liability and social insurance should be integrated into a rational risk management strategy.
Preface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Risk Beliefs and Individual Rationality ; 3. Hazard Warnings and Risk Information ; 4. The Value of Life ; 5. Risk-Risk Analysis ; 6. Risk Analysis and Regulatory Policy ; 7. Liability and Social Insurance ; 8. Toward a Rational Basis for Regulation ; References ; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.3.1998 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Ryde Lectures |
| Zusatzinfo | frontispiece, line figures, tables |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 145 x 224 mm |
| Gewicht | 315 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
| Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Mikroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-829363-1 / 0198293631 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-829363-7 / 9780198293637 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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