【内容简介】
在现代人的理念中“人命无价”，但在现实的社会里，人们不得不承认“人命有价”。从与日常息息相关的保险费、生儿育女到法规制定，甚至是恐怖攻击的赔偿金，人们都有一个价格。要钱，还是要命？一条命到底值多少钱？它该如何计算？有钱人的命是否比穷人的命值钱？有没有真正意义上的统计学模型可以做到公平对待每一条命？……这些问题看似残忍但却相当现实，让人避无可避。哥伦比亚大学顶尖统计学家、卫生经济学家霍华德·史蒂文·弗里德曼，深入美国社会各层面的人命定价案例，探析普通民众如何被政府、经济学家、法律、企业、医疗体系、保险公司等定下价格，并反思人命价格标签背后的逻辑缺陷及由此引发的社会不公问题。
【著译者简介】
霍华德·史蒂文·弗里德曼（Howard Steven Friedman，1972—），世界顶尖的统计学家、卫生经济学家、成本效益分析应用专家，目前在哥伦比亚大学任教。弗里德曼因在联合国许多重要项目中担任首席统计模型专家及在统计学、数据科学和卫生经济学领域的出版物而享有声誉，代表作包括《国家的测量》《人命如何定价？》等。
方宇，毕业于北京大学历史系，现为自由译者。译有《两个世界的战争》《全球化简史》《美国的内战与重建》等。
【 Content Introduction 】
In the modern concept of "human life is priceless", but in the real society, people have to admit that "human life has a price". From insurance premiums and childbearing to regulation and even compensation for terrorist attacks, people have a price. Money or life? How much is a life worth? How does it compute? Are the lives of rich people worth more than the lives of poor people? Is there a statistical model that does justice to every life? ... These questions may seem cruel, but they are realistic and unavoidable. Howard Steven Friedman, a top statistician and health economist at Columbia University, delves into the pricing of human life at all levels of American society, exploring how ordinary people are priced by the government, economists, laws, corporations, the medical system, insurance companies, and others, and reflecting on the logical flaws behind the price tag of human life and the resulting social injustice.
A Brief Introduction to the Translator
Howard Steven Friedman (1972 -), one of the world's leading statisticians, health economists, and experts in the application of cost-benefit analysis, currently teaches at Columbia University. Friedman is well known for his work as chief statistical modeler on many important UN projects and for his publications in the fields of statistics, data science and health economics, including The Measurement of Nations, How to Price Human Life? Let's wait.
Fang Yu, a history graduate from Peking University, is now a freelance translator. His books include The War of Two Worlds, A Brief History of Globalization, and the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States.
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