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Storytelling in University Education: Emotion, Teachable Moments, and the Value of Life
Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative, 2012Teaching as a process of storytelling allows faculty to reach out to students' emotions, breathing life into the ideas that are being taught and learned.
Howard R. Woodhouse
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The value of life and the value of population
Journal of Population Economics, 1996"This paper first distinguishes structured and unstructured approaches to valuing life. The unstructured approach bases its valuations on people's raw preferences, whereas the structured approach imposes a theoretical framework about the structure of value. The paper recommends the structured approach.
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Ethics, 1988
KIE: The Epicurean argument that death cannot be a misfortune for the person who dies because, when death occurs, there is no longer a person to whom any misfortune can befall, fails to establish the conclusions which its defenders have sought from it. Beginning with the premise that death can be bad, either for the victim or in quasi-impersonal terms,
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KIE: The Epicurean argument that death cannot be a misfortune for the person who dies because, when death occurs, there is no longer a person to whom any misfortune can befall, fails to establish the conclusions which its defenders have sought from it. Beginning with the premise that death can be bad, either for the victim or in quasi-impersonal terms,
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Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 2001
It is possible and necessary to compare stretches of human life with other goods, such as the good of conserving resources for others. A minute of human life is not of infinite value; all else being equal, a minute of life is less valuable than 10 years of the same life.
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It is possible and necessary to compare stretches of human life with other goods, such as the good of conserving resources for others. A minute of human life is not of infinite value; all else being equal, a minute of life is less valuable than 10 years of the same life.
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Economica, 1985
determined. The morally significant differences between the states can be classified under three headings. First, there is length of life: at least one person lives longer in one state than in the other. Second, there is wellbeing: since life-saving uses up resources, on the whole people will be worse off in the state where lives are saved.
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determined. The morally significant differences between the states can be classified under three headings. First, there is length of life: at least one person lives longer in one state than in the other. Second, there is wellbeing: since life-saving uses up resources, on the whole people will be worse off in the state where lives are saved.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The tradeoff between money and small risks of death is the value of statistical life (VSL), which has become the standard for assessing the benefits of risk and environmental regulations. Labor market estimates of the VSL average about $7 million. This valuation amount rises with age and then declines, closely tracking the pattern of consumption over ...
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The tradeoff between money and small risks of death is the value of statistical life (VSL), which has become the standard for assessing the benefits of risk and environmental regulations. Labor market estimates of the VSL average about $7 million. This valuation amount rises with age and then declines, closely tracking the pattern of consumption over ...
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1987
It is not identified lives but statistical lives — the reduction of some mortal hazard to some part of the population — whose value is our topic. But the prolongation of individual lives is getting increased attention, and it deserves some of ours before we get on with the main business.
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It is not identified lives but statistical lives — the reduction of some mortal hazard to some part of the population — whose value is our topic. But the prolongation of individual lives is getting increased attention, and it deserves some of ours before we get on with the main business.
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