Risk and Reason

"Risk and Reason 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 - and protect the environment in the process."--Jacket.

First sentence: What sets the new synthetic insecticides apart is their enormous biological potency.

Year

2002

Language

English

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Editions

2

Pages

352

ISBN

9780521791991

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