1956
DOI: 10.2307/2342577
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The Cost of Road Accidents

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“…Looking at the figures in a study on car accidents by Reynolds (1956), it was concluded that that net life time income lost would give quite different valuations to the lives lost of different persons. E.g.…”
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“…Looking at the figures in a study on car accidents by Reynolds (1956), it was concluded that that net life time income lost would give quite different valuations to the lives lost of different persons. E.g.…”
Section: )mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Responding to Reynolds (1956), who had argued that it is beyond the competence of economists to assign values to pain, fear, and suffering, Schelling (1968, pp. 128-129) …”
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confidence: 99%
“…Esta cifra ofrece una idea de la importancia económica y social del problema estudiado y usualmente, su magnitud es lo suficientemente importante para atraer la atención de la sociedad sobre el tema, en especial de aquellos que pueden tomar decisiones al respecto. Los primeros estudios del CdE se realizaron en la década de los 50 sobre accidentes de tráfico 20 [31][32][33][34][35] , y se ha sugerido que con los avances teóricos y metodológicos ha aumentado la comparabilidad y consistencia entre estudios 5 . Las diferentes aproximaciones de los estudios de CdE parten del concepto de "coste de oportunidad" presuponiendo que, de no existir la enfermedad (alternativa ideal), los recursos que la sociedad emplea para su tratamiento y otras acciones relacionadas, podrí-an ser utilizados para fines alternativos; de este modo, y en sentido inverso, los costes relevantes de la enfermedad estudiada serían aquellos que desaparecerían de desaparecer ésta 5,19 .…”
Section: Fundamentos Económicos De Los Estudios Del Coste De La Enferunclassified