Social Costs in Modern Society: A Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment

by John E. Ullmann

Overview

This book examines methodological problems involved in determining social costs and analyzes costs and their allocation in significant sectors of American economic and political life. It starts with a discussion of social costs and means of accounting for them and is followed with detailed discussions of how human life and health have been valued in society. The social costs of products, activities, and situations such as electrical power production, occupational disability, unemployment, old age, poverty, duplication of capital facilities, drugs, transportation, food, the business of government, including the military sector, are discussed and assessed. A summary chapter provides a historical evaluation and perspective on changing trends in social cost assessment and allocation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780899300191
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/30/1983
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)