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Lester B. Lave

Academic Title: Professor

Administrative Title: Director

Name: Lester B. Lave

 

Department: Department of Economics

Department Website: http://littlehurt.gsia.cmu.edu/gsiadoc/contents.asp?School=H

Institution: Carnegie Mellon University

 

Address: 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

 

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Expertise: Applied economics, particularly identification and structuring of public issues. Setting safety goals for dams and other engineered structures, quantitative risk assessment, exhaustible resources-helium, setting safety standards for nuclear reactors, modeling the effects of global climate change, improving social regulations, risk perception and communication, the value of information in tests for carcinogenicity, highway safety; pollution prevention.

 

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