Robert Reich: Safety on the Cheap
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on March 16th, 2011 4:45 am by HL
Robert Reich: Safety on the Cheap
Profit-making corporations have every incentive to underestimate the probabilities of potential disasters and lowball the likely externalized harms. This is why it’s necessary to have such things as government regulators.
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