Averting Catastrophe: Decision Theory for Covid-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds
Best-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenariosThe world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full information, should decision-makers focus on avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes? When should extreme measures be taken to prevent as much destruction as possible?Averting Catastrophe explores how governments ought to make decisio…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4798-0848-9
- EAN: 9781479808489
- Produktnummer: 35442656
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Über den Autor
Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. He is the author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler), Conformity: The Power of Social Influences, How Change Happens, and Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don't Want to Know.
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