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Reforming Products Liability

Reforming Products Liability

W. Kip Viscusi

Drawing on both liability insurance trends and litigation patterns, Viscusi shows that the products liability crisis is not simply a phenomenon of the 1980s but has been developing for several decades.
Learning about Risk: Consumer and Worker Responses to Hazard ...

Learning about Risk: Consumer and Worker Responses to Hazard ...

W. Kip Viscusi

Examines how people use label information on hazardous products.
Employment Hazards: An Investigation of Market Performance

Employment Hazards: An Investigation of Market Performance

W. Kip Viscusi

The safety of the work place is now a highly visible public issue.
Rational Risk Policy: The 1996 Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures

Rational Risk Policy: The 1996 Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures

W. Kip Viscusi

Rational Risk Policy is based on Viscusi's Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures, delivered at Lund University in 1996.
Economics of Regulation and Antitrust

Economics of Regulation and Antitrust

W. Kip Viscusi

A substantially revised and updated new edition of the leading text on business and government, with new material reflecting recent theoretical and methodological advances; includes further coverage of the Microsoft antitrust case, the ...
Journal of Proceedings

Journal of Proceedings

Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate

Oct- 20. 31, 20, [273 J. Kip Anderson. • [274 jC. T. Alton, •293 Same, - 283 j.f- Kip Anderson, - ::07 ! Same, - 308 T.TenEyck, 1309.J J. Kip Anderson, - [312 T. TenEyck, 322 Charles Robinson, 370 J. Kip Anderson, - -,71 T.TeuEyck, • - 372 Same, ...
Smoking: Making the Risky Decision

Smoking: Making the Risky Decision

W. Kip Viscusi

Are the risks of smoking exaggerated? Has there been an open and rational discussion about the risks of smoking? This book attempts to answer these and many other questions about smoking.
Risk by Choice: Regulating Health and Safety in the Workplace

Risk by Choice: Regulating Health and Safety in the Workplace

W. Kip Viscusi

Analyzes the proper role of the government in the elimination of occupational health and safety hazards and evaluates the effectiveness of attempts to regulate industrial health risks.
Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide

Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide

Cass R. Sunstein

W. Kip Viscusi I. Introduction The shortcomings in individual decisions involving risk influence the responses of social institutions to risk. In a democratic society, governmental action is responsive to citizen preferences. Substantial evidence ...
Wisconsin Session Laws

Wisconsin Session Laws

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Chap 254 An Act to appropriate to J. Kip Anderson the sum of money therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: . - SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to J. Kip ...
Dianne's Destiny

Dianne's Destiny

Winona Bennett Cross

Ricochet smiled and stood. Kip and Jocelyn turned to see Dianne walking through the door with tears flowing unchecked down her face. Kip jumped to his feet, knocking the chair to the floor. He broke into a run, scooped Dianne up in his arms, ...
Acts and Resolves Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin

Acts and Resolves Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Chap 254 An Act to appropriate to J Kip Anderson the sum of moaey therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Sen^ ate and Assembly, do enact as follows : Section 1. There is hereby appropriated to J. Kip Anderson ...
Genealogical and Biographical Notes: Haring-Herring, Clark, ...

Genealogical and Biographical Notes: Haring-Herring, Clark, ...

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804 Emma Howell Ross, Descendants of Edward Howell (1584–1655) ofWestbury Manor, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire and Southampton, Long Island, New York, ed. David Faris (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1985), 239–240; Kip, The Kip ...
Right Behind You

Right Behind You

Gail Giles

When he was nine, Kip set another child on fire.
From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana

From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana

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This volume of Italian Americana writings has been revised to include the lyrical voices of Mary Jo Bona, Peter Carravetta and Robert Viscusi; the prose writing of Mary Bucci Bush, Carol Maso, Ben Morreale and Anthony Valerio; and the ...
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... Scepter • Starting Well THAT'S WHEN THE CRYING BEGINS — Kip Anderson, ABC I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF — Tommy Hunt, Scepter • WWRL Picks for Hits Tamla-Motown Soul sweepstakes: Carolyn Crawford; ...
The Sustainability Secret

The Sustainability Secret

Kip Anderson

The Sustainability Secret expands upon Cowspiracy in every way.
The Albuquerque Affliction

The Albuquerque Affliction

Larry L. Byars

178 "I suspect you're talking about the connection to Kip Anderson we discussed, " Medina said. Salazar nodded, his jaw set tightly. Will's choice of these two men to confide in was a good one. They were both prepared to believe the worst ...
Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and ...

Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and ...

Paul J. Nahin

This book explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov.
Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Kip S. Thorne

Examines such phenomena as black holes, wormholes, singularities, gravitational waves, and time machines, exploring the fundamental principles that control the universe.
Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland ...

Harambee City: The Congress of Racial Equality in Cleveland ...

Nishani Frazier

Meier and Rudwick, CORE, 10–12; Joseph Kip Kosek, “Richard Gregg, Mohandas Gandhi, and the Strategy of Nonviolence,” Journal of American History 91, no. 4 (March 2005); George Houser, interview by Katherine Shannon, transcript, ...
Small Animal Diagnostic Ultrasound - E-Book

Small Animal Diagnostic Ultrasound - E-Book

John S. Mattoon

Many contributed not through the written word but through collegial advice, images, snippets and pearls, and scientific engagement. To Tomas Baker, Dr. Livia Benigni, Peter Brunelli, Dr. Kip Berry, Dr. David Biller, Dr. John Bonagura, Michele ...
Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern ...

Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern ...

Joseph Kip Kosek

Greatly influenced by the ideas of Mohandas Gandhi, these "acts of conscience" included sit-ins, boycotts, labor strikes, and conscientious objection to war.
Vigilant Christian II: Preventing an American Hiroshima

Vigilant Christian II: Preventing an American Hiroshima

David J. Dionisi

Preventing an American Hiroshima David J. Dionisi ... Paul E. Jr.* Viets, Richard Noyes Vila, Adis M. Viorst, Milton Viscusi, Enzo Vitale, Alberto Vitale, David J. Vittori, Jodi M. Vlasic, Mark V. Voell, Richard Allen Vogel, Ezra F. Vogelgesang, ...
Journal of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of ...

Journal of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of ...

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the Bishop of Connecticut; James Kip Anderson; Christopher B. Wyatt; Joseph J. Nicolson; Arthur J. G. Lalanne; Joseph P. Jenks; Thomas R. Bailey Trader; Levin White Trader; and Theodore Philip Barber. Daniel Henshaw has been transfer.
Journal Of The Fifty-Sixth Annual Convention Of The ...

Journal Of The Fifty-Sixth Annual Convention Of The ...

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the Bishop of Connecticut ; James Kip Anderson ; Christopher B. VVyatt ; Joseph J. Nicolson ; Arthur J. G. Lalanne ; Joseph P. Jenks; Thomas R. Bailey Trader; Levin White Trader; and Theodore Philip Barber. Daniel Henshaw has been ...
Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the ...

Risa Goluboff

... 2013); Joseph Kip Kosek, Acts of Conscience: Christian Nonviolence and Modern American Democracy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011); Martin Halliwell, Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, ...
American Religion, American Politics: An Anthology

American Religion, American Politics: An Anthology

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Copyright © 2017 by Joseph Kip Kosek. Foreword copyright © 2017 by Jon Butler. All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and ...

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