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How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place Bjorn Lomborg

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place By Bjorn Lomborg

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjorn Lomborg


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Edited by Bjorn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions discusses the ten most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition, migration, sanitation and clean water, and subsidies and trade barriers.

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place Summary

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjorn Lomborg

Edited by Bjorn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious yet accessible springboard for debate and discussion on the world's most serious problems, and what we can do to solve them. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good with our money. This unique book provides a rich set of dialogs examining ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, the spread of communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, access to education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, migration, sanitation and access to clean water, and subsidies and trade barriers. Each problem is introduced by a world-renowned expert who defines the scale of the issue and examines a range of policy options.

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place Reviews

'... it is refreshing to read a book that is about a concrete action rather than simply talking.' New Statesman
'... makes for good reading on subjects that I encourage all my students to reflect on.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

About Bjorn Lomborg

Bjorn Lomborg is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School and the director of the Danish Environmental Assessment Institute. He is also the author of the controversial bestseller, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge, 2001).

Table of Contents

Introduction: what should we do first? Bjorn Lomborg; 1. Meeting the challenge of global warming William R. Cline; Opponents' views Robert Mendelsohn and Alan S. Manne; 2. Communicable diseases Anne Mills and Sam Shillcutt; Opponents' views David B. Evans and Jacques van der Gaag; 3. The challenge of reducing the global incidence of civil war Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler; Opponents' views Michael D. Intriligator and Tony Addison; 4. Towards a new consensus for addressing the global challenge of the lack of education Lant Pritchett; Opponents' views T. Paul Schultz and Ludger Woessmann; 5. The challenge of poor governance and corruption Susan Rose-Ackerman; Opponent's views Jens Christopher Andvig and Jean Cartier-Bresson; 6. Hunger and malnutrition Jere R. Behrman, Harold Alderman and John Hoddinott; Opponent's views Peter Svedberg and Simon Appleton; 7. Population and migration Philip Martin; Opponent's views Mark Rosenzweig and Roger Boehning; 8. The water challenge Frank Rijsberman; Opponent's views John J. Boland and Henry Vaux, Jr.; 9. Subsidies and trade barriers Kym Anderson; Opponent's views Jan Pronk and Arvind Panagariya.

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GOR002998301
9780521685719
0521685710
How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjorn Lomborg
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
20060612
208
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