Alarmist Decisions with Divergent Risk Information
The Economic JournalPublished 1 November 1997
W. Kip Viscusi
Citations175
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Journal Article Alarmist Decisions with Divergent Risk Information Get access W. Kip Viscusi W. Kip Viscusi Harvard Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 107, Issue 445, 1 November 1997, Pages 1657–1670, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.1997.tb00073.x Published: 27 January 2012 Article history Received: 01 January 1997 Published: 27 January 2012
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