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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
Peter Railton*
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The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Part V. Technology and Risk Assessment
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PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association , Volume 1982 , Issue 2: Volume Two: Symposia and Invited Papers 1982 , 1982 , pp. 261 - 271
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Copyright © 1983 Philosophy of Science Association

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