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Product Liability and Regulation: Establishing the Appropriate Institutional Division of Labor
(American Economic Association, 2012)
Society has several institutional mechanisms that promote the control of product health and safety risks and compensation of the income losses that these risks generated. For risks traded in the market, economic forces at ...
Market Incentives for Safety
(Harvard Business Review, 1985)
In the heated atmosphere generated by inch-high headlines and multimillion-dollar liability suits, two important facts often get lost. First, society's awareness of what ensuring reasonably complete safety would cost rarely ...