How much is your life worth? How much is your health worth? Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling discuss the process through which right wing free marketers have cheapened the value of human life, and its quality, through logical but inhuman economic practices that attempt to dollarize everything. They show the pseudo logic of economist who have argued that an senior citizen's life is worth less in terms of dollars than a young person and who are against any form of environmental and job regulation because of the costs.
The book is extremely well written and explains how economist measure risk for everyday Americans, and how that measurement has been corrupted by monied and political interest. In light of the case in Baltimore and our current environmental problems that we face, and that our children are likly to face, I would recommend this book to anyone who cares about their future and their quality of life.
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