Ultimate Price by Howard Steven Friedman PAPERBACK 9780520383128

Ultimate Price\nby Howard Steven Friedman\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Howard Steven Friedman\nTitle: Ultimate Price\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Economics\nPublisher: University of California Press\nISBN-13: 9780520383128\nISBN-10: 0520383125\nRRP: \u00A321.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nHow much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that underlie these price tags are often buried in technical language, yet they influence our economy, laws, behaviors, policies, health, and safety. These price tags are often unfair, infused as they are with gender, racial, national, and cultural biases that often result in valuing the lives of the young more than the old, the rich more tha.