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Risk and Reason - Safety, Law, and the Environment (Paperback, New ed)
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Risk and Reason - Safety, Law, and the Environment (Paperback, New ed)
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What should be done about airplane safety and terrorism, global
warming, polluted water, nuclear power, and genetically engineered
food? Decision-makers often respond to temporary fears, and 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. Cass R. Sunstein is the Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished
Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Appointed by
President Clinton to serve on the Advisory Committee on the Public
Interest Obligations of Television Broadcasters. His many books
include Republic.com (Princeton, 2001) and Designing Democracy
(Oxford, 2001). He has worked in the United States Department of
Justice and advised on law reform and constitution-making in many
nations.
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