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Synopsis
The world faces myriad challenges - yet we are constrained by scarce resources. In the 21st Century, how do we deal with natural disasters, tackle global warming, achieve better nutrition, educate children... and address countless global issues? If you want to change the world, this inspiring and enlightening book is for you. Bjorn Lomborg presents the costs and benefi ts of the smartest solutions to twelve global problems. By prioritizing the top solutions, this helps us better spend $75 billion to do the most good. Featuring the cutting edge research of more than sixty eminent economists, including four Nobel Laureates, produced for the Copenhagen Consensus, this book will inform, enlighten and motivate actions to make our world a better place.
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About the Author
Bjorn Lomborg is an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School. He founded and directs the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which ranks the smartest solutions to the world s biggest problems using cost-benefit analysis. He wrote The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It, which was also featured in an eponymous documentary. TIME Magazine named him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and according to the Guardian (UK) he is one of the 50 people who could save the planet. Lomborg has repeatedly been named on of Foreign Policy s Top 100 Global Thinkers.
Review
The Copenhagen Consensus brings together an impressive roster of minds, and while not everyone agrees with the composition and ordering of Lomborg's priorities lists -- climate change tends to rank lower than many stakeholders would like, for example -- as a point of departure for discussion, the exercise of priority-setting is a sound one. ---- Tom Zeller Jr., The Huffington Post
I have served on four Copenhagen Consensus committees of experts since 2004. All involved hard choices among attractive alternatives to meet crucial objectives for development and health. And the reason I keep serving? I learn so much. ---- Thomas C. Schelling, Nobel Laureate in Economics
What could world leaders have achieved if they hadn't spent the past 25 years investing so much money and summitry on global warming? In a brilliant book, How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place, Lomborg has documented how politicians could have been tackling more pressing problems facing the world's poorest people. Action on HIV/Aids, for example, the provision of micro nutrients to hungry children, the control of malaria, guarantees of clean water and the liberalisation of trade would all have been better uses of politicians' time and taxpayers' money. ---- Tim Montgomerie, The Times
Copenhagen Consensus is an outstanding, visionary idea and deserves global coverage. ---- The Economist
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- PublisherCopenhagen Consensus Center
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1940003016
- ISBN 13 9781940003016
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages172
- EditorBjorn Lomborg
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