Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Ultimate Price The Value We Place On Life
Author(s): Friedman Howard Steven
Publisher: University Of California Press
Barcode: 9780520383128
Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Date: 5/5/2021
Category: Insurance & Actuarial Studies