Patient Preferences, Intergenerational Equity and the Precautionary Principle
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Patient preferences have a social welfare interpretation consonant with a belief that the society affected by present decisions will last for a very long time. In stochastic settings, these preferences lead to justifications for variants of the precautionary principle.
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