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Against Cost-Benefit Analysis w/ Frank Pasquale (Unlocked)

Death Panel

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I'd Like to Know Where the Commitment to Holding on to It Comes From

There's this belief that the numerical is ultimately superior to the quantitative. And i think now we can think that costpon of n analysis is part of that y and that it is, itself is, its benefits don't outweigh its costs. It's ironicis like they never turn that on themselves. Why they never turn themes out of te way? The godfather of cos benpanalysis, kip viscuse,. he has this huge as like, no and early in the early two thousands the underbush, the e p a lowers the value of statistical life which is used to calculate, like, the benefits of of pollution regulations and things like that. They lower it for variety of

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