Risk and Reason presents a sensible system for reducing risks to save lives and money.
PrefaceIntroduction: Magnitudes, Tradeoffs, and Tools11Beyond 1970s Environmentalism102Thinking About Risks283Are Experts Wrong?534This Month's Risk (with Timur Kuran)785Reducing Risks Rationally996Health-Health Tradeoffs1337The Arithmetic of Arsenic1538Of Courts and Law: Cost-Benefit Default Principles1919Cleaning the Air22910Tools251Afterword: On Consequences and Technocrats289App. AWorldwide Health Statistics296App. BStatistical Risks: U.S. General Mortality Trends301App. CCost-Benefit Numbers for Ozone and Particulates311App. DDose-Response Curves318Acknowledgments325Index327