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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... poor proxy for well - being.5 Nonetheless , I shall offer a qualified defense of cost - benefit analy- sis — not with the preposterous suggestion that it always tells us what to do but with the more modest claim that in deciding what to ...
... poor regions , above all India and Africa , are most vulnerable . But the distributional question bears on many other potential disasters as well , such as AIDS and avian flu . We also need to separate the question of regulation from ...
... poor countries . Of course it is preposterous to say that the inhabitants of one nation are " worth less " than the inhabitants of another . But as we shall see , it is not preposterous to say that a rich nation rightly spends more to ...
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