Global Crises, Global Solutions

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Edited by Bjorn Lomborg

672 pages, figs, tabs.

Cambridge University Press

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Softcover | 2009 | Edition: 2 | #179571 | ISBN-13: 9780521741224

NHBS Price: £25.99 | $41/€31 approx.

Hardcover | 2009 | Edition: 2 | #179570 | ISBN-13: 9780521517218

NHBS Price: £71.00 | $112/€85 approx.

Explores the opportunities for addressing ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: Climate Change, Communicable Diseases, Conflicts, Education, Financial Instability, Corruption, Migration, Malnutrition and Hunger, Trade Barriers, Access to Water. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good with our money. Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a rich set of arguments and data for prioritising our response most effectively. Each problem is introduced by a world-renowned expert defining the scale of the problem and describing the costs and benefits of a range of policy options to improve the situation. Each challenge is evaluated by economists from North America, Europe and China who attempt a ranking of the most promising options.

This new edition is entirely revised and updated but retains the format that made the first edition one of the most widely discussed policy statments of recent years.