Traffic Safety from an Economist's Point of View

Stefan Valavanis

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1958, vol. 72, issue 4, 477-484

Abstract: I. Economic reasoning applied to traffic safety, 477. — II. Inconsistencies in costing the evils of driving, 478. — III. Marginal cost taxation and efficiency, 479. — IV. Expenditures need not be tailored to revenues, 480. — V. Differential insurance premiums, 482. — VI. Accidents are social overhead costs, 483. — VII, Optimizing our institutions, 484.

Date: 1958
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1884331 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:72:y:1958:i:4:p:477-484.

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://academic.oup.com/journals

Access Statistics for this article

The Quarterly Journal of Economics is currently edited by Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer and Stefanie Stantcheva

More articles in The Quarterly Journal of Economics from President and Fellows of Harvard College
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().