Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work, and the Value of Human Life

by Peter Dorman

Book Overview

In this book the author examines and ultimately rejects the conventional economic view that workers who have more dangerous jobs accept their risks voluntarily and are compensated through higher... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521553067
• ISBN13: 9780521553063
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"