Worst-Case ScenariosHarvard University Press, 2009 M05 15 - 352 pages Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. How can we steer a path between willful inaction and reckless overreaction? |
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... citizens of a poor nation to pay $ 100 each to eliminate a risk of 1 / 500,000 . But it might well make sense for wealthy nations to transfer resources to citizens of such a nation , to enable them to take more and better steps to ...
... citizens who live healthier , longer , and better lives . I shall have something to say about what intergenerational neutrality ac- tually requires , and about the complex relationship between that important ideal and the disputed ...
... citizens , and this difference compli- cates the economic case for cost - benefit analysis . An additional problem involves social deprivation : If deprivation has led people to adapt to serious risks , believing them to be an ...
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