Risks, Costs, and Lives Saved: Getting Better Results from Regulation
- ISBN-10
- 019521174X
- ISBN-13
- 9780195211740
- Category
- Environmental risk assessment
- Pages
- 267
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- A E I Press
- Author
- Robert William Hahn
Description
The authors--economists and scientists--seek in various ways to make regulation more sensible and effective.
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