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Author Ackerman, Frank.

Title Poisoned for pennies : the economics of toxics and precaution / by Frank Ackerman
Published Washington, DC : Island Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description xxvii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Pricing the priceless -- Cost-benefit analysis of past decisions -- The unbearable lightness of regulatory costs -- Precaution, uncertainty, and dioxin -- The economics of atrazine -- Ignoring the benefits of pesticides regulation -- Modeling uncertainty: the US response to BSE -- Costs of preventable childhood illness -- Phasing out a problem plastic -- The costs of REACH -- Impacts of REACH on developing countries -- How should the US respond to REACH? -- Conclusion: economics and precautionary policies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Environmental policy -- Cost effectiveness.
Environmental health -- Government policy -- Cost effectiveness.
Medical policy -- Cost effectiveness.
LC no. 2007040654
ISBN 9781597264006 (cloth : alk. paper)
1597264008 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781597264013 (paperback: alk. paper)
1597264016 (paperback: alk. paper)