Risk and Reason

Cass Sunstein

342 pages, parution le 17/03/2003

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Résumé

What should be done about airplane safety and terrorism, global warming, polluted water, nuclear power, and genetically engineered food? All over the globe, risks to safety, health, and the environment are a subject of intense interest. Unfortunately, too much of the time we fear the wrong things. Sometimes we make the situation even worse. Rather than investigating the facts, we respond to temporary fears. The result is a situation of hysteria and neglect - and unnecessary illness and death. Risk and Reason explains the sources of these problems and explores what can be done about them. It 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 too - and protect the environment in the process.

Contents

1. Beyond 1970s environmentalism;
2. Thinking about risks;
3. Are the experts wrong?;
4. This month's risk (with Timur Kuran);
5. Reducing risks rationally;
6. Health-health tradeoffs;
7. The arithmetic of arsenic;
8. Of courts and law: cost-benefit default principles;
9. Cleaning the air;
10. Tools.

L'auteur - Cass Sunstein

Cass R. Sunstein, juriste de renommée internationale, est sans doute le professeur de droit le plus cité des universités américaines. Il dirige à Harvard le Programme sur la régulation des risques.

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Cass Sunstein
Parution	17/03/2003
Nb. de pages	342
Format	16 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	625g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521791991
ISBN13	978-0-521-79199-1