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Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life

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Availability:In StockContributor:Howard Steven FriedmanPublish date:2020-05-05Pages:232
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520343221ISBN-10:520343220UPC:9780520343221Book Category:Business & Economics, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Economics, Insurance, Public PolicyBook Topic:Health, Social PolicySize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCH3PACVRD

How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety.

These price tags are often unfair, infused as they are with gender, racial, national, and cultural biases that often result in valuing the lives of the young more than the old, the rich more than the poor, whites more than blacks, Americans more than foreigners, and relatives more than strangers. This is critical since undervalued lives are left less-protected and more exposed to risk.

Howard Steven Friedman explains in simple terms how economists and data scientists at corporations, regulatory agencies, and insurance companies develop and use these price tags and points a spotlight at their logical flaws and limitations. He then forcefully argues against the rampant unfairness in the system. Readers will be enlightened, shocked, and, ultimately, empowered to confront the price tags we assign to human lives and understand why such calculations matter.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520343221ISBN-10:520343220UPC:9780520343221Book Category:Business & Economics, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Economics, Insurance, Public PolicyBook Topic:Health, Social PolicySize:9.10 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCH3PACVRD

Howard Steven Friedman, a leading statistician and health economist, is an expert in data science and applications of cost-benefit analysis. He teaches at Columbia University.


Publisher: University of California Press

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