Worst-case scenarios / Cass R. Sunstein.

By:

Sunstein, Cass R

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2007.Description: 340 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0674025105 (alk. paper)
9780674025103 (alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.60973 22

LOC classification:

HM1101 .S864 2007

Partial contents:

Of terrorism and climate change -- A tale of two protocols -- Catastrophe -- Irreversibility -- Money -- The future.

Review: "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?" -- BOOK JACKET.

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"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-327) and index.

Of terrorism and climate change -- A tale of two protocols -- Catastrophe -- Irreversibility -- Money -- The future.

"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?" -- BOOK JACKET.

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