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Three Principles for Managing Risk in the Public Interest
In: Risk analysis: an international journal, Band 15, Heft 6, S. 615-626
ISSN: 1539-6924
We propose three principles and a general framework of reasoning for managing risk in the public interest.Principle 1.Risks shall be managed to maximize the total expected net benefit to society—The principle that the net benefit is to be maximized across society as a whole is argued to be a sufficient and rational guide to assessing the effectiveness of efforts directed at reducing risk and thus improving health and safety. The net benefit of an activity is the excess of the totality of benefits over the totality of detriments.Principle 2.The safety benefit to be promoted is life‐expectancy—The goal is to ensure that risk mitigation efforts maximize the net benefit to society in the specific terms of length of life for all individuals. The effect of an activity on life expectancy is proposed as the proper basic measure of its net safety impact. Life expectancy is a universal measure valid for comparisons both within and among countries and can be adjusted to include health expectancy and other factors such as income levels that affect the quality of life. The impact on life expectancy allows a dispassionate accounting of the good and the bad inherent in any proposal or activity that is in the public interest but has some impact on life and health.Principle 3.Decisions for the public in regard to health and safety must be open and apply across the complete range of hazards to life and health—Systematic efforts to evaluateallthe important consequences, both direct and indirect, are required to improve the basis for risk management in society. Balancing of the detrimentsandthe benefits of any given initiative is the key aspect of the undertaking. Safety may well be an important objective in society, but it is not the only one. Thus, allocation of society's resources devoted to safety must be openly and continually appraised in light of other competing social needs because there is a limit on the resources that can be expended to save lives. Maximization of healthful life for all is judged the proper basis for managing risk in the public interest, and that this is achieved when the net of the contribution to the total saving of life exceeds the loss of life.
Three Principles for Managing Risk in the Public Interest
In: Risk analysis, Band 15, Heft 6, S. 615-626
ISSN: 0272-4332
Welfare, Justice and Freedom
In: The Canadian Journal of Economics, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 732
For and against the state: new philosophical readings
In: Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy
Discussion of Helga Varden's Review and Alistair MacLeod's Comments
In: Social philosophy today: an annual journal from the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Band 27, S. 179-196
ISSN: 2153-9448
Racism, "ismism," and Globalism
In: Social philosophy today: an annual journal from the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Band 24, S. 27-38
ISSN: 2153-9448
Communication and Human Good: The Twentieth Century's Main Achievement
In: Social philosophy today: an annual journal from the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Band 17, S. 91-102
ISSN: 2153-9448
Race, Social Identity, Human Dignity: Respect for Individuals
In: Social philosophy today: an annual journal from the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Band 16, S. 159-170
ISSN: 2153-9448
Globalism and the Obsolescence of the State: New Support for Old Doubts
In: Social philosophy today: an annual journal from the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Band 14, S. 3-19
ISSN: 2153-9448
On the Rationality of Revolutions: A Radical Individualist Inquiry
In: Social philosophy today: an annual journal from the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Band 3, S. 223-251
ISSN: 2153-9448
Understanding Rawls
In: Social theory and practice: an international and interdisciplinary journal of social philosophy, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 483-503
ISSN: 2154-123X
A Puzzle about Economic Justice in Rawls' Theory
In: Social theory and practice: an international and interdisciplinary journal of social philosophy, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 1-27
ISSN: 2154-123X
Semantics, Future Generations, and the Abortion Problem: Comments on a Fallacious Case Against the Morality of Abortion
In: Social theory and practice: an international and interdisciplinary journal of social philosophy, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 461-485
ISSN: 2154-123X