A high profile thought experiment asks leading scholars to make cases for spending additional aid money to combat major world problems. Editor(s): Lomborg, Bjorn. Num Pages: 766 pages, 110 b/w illus. 172 tables. BIC Classification: KCM; KCN; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 251 x 176 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1638. . 2013. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Global Problems, Smart Solutions
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1107039592
ISBN 13: 9781107039599
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how to combat problems ranging from armed conflicts, corruption and trade barriers, to natural disasters, hunger, education and climate change. For each case, 'Alternative Perspectives' are also included to provide a critique and make other suggestions for investment. In addition, a panel of senior economists, including four Nobel Laureates, rank the attractiveness of each policy proposal in terms of its anticipated cost-benefit ratio. This thought-provoking book opens up debate, encouraging readers to come up with their own rankings and decide which solutions are smarter than others.

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Bj�rn Lomborg is Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business School. He is the author of the controversial bestseller, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and was named one of the 'top 100 global thinkers' by Foreign Policy magazine in 2010 and 2011, one of the world's '100 most influential people' by Time and one of the '50 people who could save the planet' by The Guardian.

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