>Alternatively, if a boss
>runs a factory with a positive fatality rate from industrial accidents, I
>would not automatically consider that a capital crime; it would depend on
>the details.
So a boss who does cost-benefit calculations and thereby decides that a production technique that costs one worker death to same $1m in profit, or 40 cases of cancer in the surrounding neighborhood - what's your judgment on that boss? Is the logic, in the words of Pritchett/Summers, impeccable? Or murderous?
Doug