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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I suggest you call up Ted Gayer -- the Georgetown professor who wrote the study -- and point that out. You might save him some embarrassment. Also, you should call Kip Viscusi, the Harvard professor who edits the journal where it appeared, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. I'm sure he'd be glad to hear about it, too.
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I remember reading a piece that responded to a famous Viscusi article about how we shouldn't tax cigarettes, if anything we should subsidize them for all the money they save (pensions, etc.) from unproductive old people dying earlier than they otherwise would.
