The value of life?
Immeasurable, we all spontaneously want to answer.
And yet, every day, groups of professionals, "
hospital managers, town planners in charge of developing roads, inspectors of safety standards on construction sites, administrators of the primary health insurance fund, judges, mayors, ministers, insurers, members of the Court of Auditors, army generals or managers of the Guarantee Fund for victims of acts of terrorism"
, according to the Prévert list drawn up by Jérôme Mathis, assume to provide an economic answer to this vertiginous question .
The essay by this professor from Paris-Dauphine University,
How much is a life worth?
(Le Tremplin des idées, 2021), has the merit of presenting to the general public, with pedagogy, the ins and outs of the delicate but essential financial, legal and ethical debate on this question of the value that public policies grant to each life.
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