What is a cost–benefit analysis and what is the moral importance of such analyses?
Why was Ford’s decision to not modify the design of the Pinto’s fuel tank so controversial?
In 2015, the US NHTSA estimated a statistical life to be worth about $9.1 million. Is it unethical to assign a monetary value to the
loss of a human life? If so, why?
Are defenders of cost–benefit analysis committed to utilitarianism?
How, if at all, could defenders of cost–benefit analysis take rights and duties and other nonutilitarian considerations into account?
What role could output and input filters play in a cost–benefit analysis?
What problem is hedonic pricing and the travel cost method supposed to solve?
How, if at all, can a cost–benefit analysis account for the “mere existence” of a beautiful clean lake in some remote part of the
world? Is that account plausible?
