The Avian Flu Disease: A Case of Precautionary Failure
The Precautionary Principle has been proposed as the proper behaviour to adopt in the face of the new catastrophic risks that have made their appearance in the last decades. We advance a workable definition of the Precautionary Principle and apply it to the possible outbreak among humans of the avia...
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| Online Access: | http://repec.deps.unisi.it/quaderni/454.pdf |
| Summary: | The Precautionary Principle has been proposed as the proper behaviour to adopt in the face of the new catastrophic risks that have made their appearance in the last decades. We advance a workable definition of the Precautionary Principle and apply it to the possible outbreak among humans of the avian flu disease. We make use of a Principle-Agent model and show in which sense such outbreak can be considered a “Precautionary failure”. ambiguity, avian flu, precautionary principle, multiple priors |
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