There was a really good podcast on this on Planet Money a couple months ago called "Life vs. the Economy". https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843 https://ww

There was a really good podcast on this on Planet Money a couple months ago called "Life vs. the Economy". https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843 It discusses various ways that the value of a life have been calculated and how it has been used to determine whether product labels are worth changing to save lives. They suppose that the shutdown could have saved $10 trillion worth of lives.