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Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Response to Bantz and MacLean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2022

Peter Railton*
Affiliation:
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Abstract

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Type
Part V. Technology and Risk Assessment
Copyright
Copyright © 1983 Philosophy of Science Association

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