W. Kip Viscusi is Vanderbilt University's only university
distinguished professor, with primary appointments in the Owen
Graduate School of Management and the department of economics as
well as at the law school. Viscusi is the award-winning author of
more than 20 books and 250 articles, most concerned with different
aspects of health and safety risk. His research focuses on
individual and societal responses to risk and uncertainty, and he is
widely regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on
cost-benefit analysis. Viscusi's estimates of the value of risks to
life and health have become the standard used throughout the federal
government. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Office of
Management and Budget, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Federal
Aviation Administration and the U.S. Department of Justice on issues
pertaining to the valuation of life and health. He was deputy
director of the Council of Wage and Price Stability in the Carter
administration. He served on the Science Advisory Board of the EPA
for seven years and currently serves on the agency's Homeland
Security Committee. He is the founding editor of the Journal of
Risk and Uncertainty, which he will continue to publish at
Vanderbilt, and has served on the editorial boards of a dozen other
journals. He is co-author of Economics of Regulation and
Antitrust and wrote Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the
Tobacco Deal.
Professor Viscusi came to Vanderbilt from Harvard Law School, where
he was the John F. Cogan Jr. Professor of Law and Economics and
director of the Program on Empirical Legal Studies. Before joining the
Harvard faculty, he was the Allen Professor of Economics at Duke
University, professor of economics at Northwestern University and the
Olin Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago.
For more information on Viscusi, see the
Vanderbilt
University website.
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