Scott Barrett

Why Cooperate?

The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

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Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided?Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible introduction to the issues surrounding the provision of global public goods. Using a variety of examples to illustrate past successes and failures, he shows how international cooperation, institutional design, and the clever use of incentives can work to… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-161500-9
EAN: 9780191615009
Produktnummer: 13996495
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'854 KB
Abbildungen: 11 tables and 3 figures

Über den Autor

Scott Barrett was previously an advisor to the International Task Force on Global Public Goods, and drew upon his work for the Task Force in preparing this book. He wrote the book while on sabbatical as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University. His previous book, Environment and Statecraft, was published by OUP in paperback in 2005.