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10. Ellen Goodman, “Thanks, but No Thanks,” Boston Globe, July 22, 2001, p. D7.
11. Gordon Fairclough, “Philip Morris Says It’s Sorry for Death Report,” Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2001, p. B1.
12. The court case was Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Co., 174 Cal. Reporter 348 (Cal. Ct. App. 1981). The cost-benefit analysis was reported in Mark Dowie, “Pinto Madness,” Mother Jones, September/October 1977. For a similar General Motors case, see Elsa Walsh and Benjamin Weiser, “Court Secrecy Masks Safety Issues,” Washington Post, October 23, 1988, pp. A1, A22.
13. W. Kip Kiscusi, “Corporate Risk Analysis: A Reckless Act?,” Stanford Law Review 52 (February 2000): 569.
14. Katharine Q. Seelye and John Tierney, “E.P.A. Drops Age-Based Cost Studies,” NewYork Times, May 8, 2003, p. A26; Cindy Skrzycki, “Under Fire, E.P.A. Drops the ‘Senior Death Discount,’” Washington Post, May 13, 2003, p. E1; Robert Hahn and Scott Wallsten, “Whose Life Is Worth More? (And Why Is It Horrible to Ask?),” Washington Post, June 1, 2003.
15. Orley Ashenfelter and Michael Greenstone, “Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life,” Journal of Political Economy 112, Supplement (February 2004): S227–67.
16. Edward L. Thorndike, Human Nature and the Social Order (New York: Macmillan, 1940). Abridged version edited by Geraldine Joncich Clifford, (Boston: MIT Press, 1969), pp. 78–83.
17. Ibid., p. 43.
18. Ibid.
19. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859), Stefan Collini, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1989), chap. 1.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid., chap. 3.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. The quote comes from an obscure writing by Bentham, The Rationale of Reward, published in the 1820s. Bentham’s statement was brought to prominence by John Stuart Mill. See Ross Harrison, Bentham (London: Routledge, 1983), p. 5.
25. John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (1861), George Sher, ed. (Hackett Publishing, 1979), chap. 2.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., chap. 4.
28. Ibid., chap. 2.
29. Ibid.
30. I draw here and in the following paragraphs on the excellent account by Joseph Lelyveld, “English Thinker (1748–1832) Preserves His Poise,” New York Times, June 18, 1986.
31. “Extract from Jeremy Bentham’s Last Will and Testament,” May 30, 1832, on the Web site of the Bentham Project, University College London, at www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/info/will.htm.
32. These and other anecdotes are related on the Web site of the Bentham Project, University College London, at www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/info/jb.htm.
33. Ibid.
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1. Matthew Miller and Duncan Greenberg, “The Forbes 400,” Forbes, September 17, 2008, at Click here.
2. Lawrence Michel, Jared Bernstein, and Sylvia Allegretto, The State of Working America 2006/2007: An Economic Policy Institute Book, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2007, using data from Edward N. Wolff (2006), at Click Here. See also Arthur B. Kennickell, “Currents and Undercurrents: Changes in the Distribution of Wealth, 1989–2004,” Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., January 30, 2006, at Click here.
3. Friedrich A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960).
4. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), p. 188.
5. Ibid., p. 111.
6. Ibid., pp. 137–60.
7. Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974), p. ix.
8. Ibid., pp. 149–60.
9. Ibid., pp. 160–64.
10. Ibid., p. 169.
11. Ibid., p. 172.
12. Ibid., p. 171.
13. Monica Davey, “Kevorkian Speaks After His Release From Prison,” New York Times, June 4, 2007.
14. Mark Landler, “Eating People Is Wrong! But Is It Homicide? Court to Rule,” New York Times, December 26, 2003, p. A4.
15. Mark Landler, “German Court Convicts Internet Cannibal of Manslaughter,” New