Edited by Bjorn Lomborg Edited by Bjørn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious yet accessible springboard for debate and discussion on the world's most serious problems, and what we can do to solve them. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good with our money.
This unique book provides a rich set of dialogs examining ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, the spread of communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, access to education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, migration, sanitation and access to clean water, and subsidies and trade barriers. Each problem is introduced by a world-renowned expert who defines the scale of the issue and examines a range of policy options.
How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
By Bjørn Lomborg
Published by Cambridge University Press
June 2006;$12.99US; 0-521-68571-0
Also available in Hardback
Published July 2006 | 208 pages | 197 x 127 mm
£9.99
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But how exactly are these important decisions made? How do our leaders decide to spend money in certain areas while letting others go without? These decisions are often made in a much more arbitrary way than most of us realize.
Bjorn Lomborg, is Adjunct Professor and Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center at the Copenhagen Business School and he is the author of the highly acclaimed and controversial book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist'. Time magazine named him as one of the 100 globally most influential people of 2004 and now Bjorn Lomborg has set his sights on eliminating the arbitrary aspect of the decision making process which hampers solutions to the world's most serious problems.
Known as the "Copenhagen Consensus," which was largely funded by the Danish government and co-sponsored by the Economist magazine, Bjorn Lomborg assembled a group of preeminent economists, many of them Nobel Laureates, to rank the world’s most pressing issues based on the cost and the benefit obtained from tackling each issue. How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (June 30, 2006; Cambridge University Press; $12.99; paperback) is the direct result of this unprecedented meeting and opens a rich and unique dialog with the hope of reaching a set of pragmatic solutions to the serious challenges that face our world today.
While some may be uncomfortable with the notion of prioritizing the world’s problems, imagine if emergency room doctors did not perform triage. What if the medical staff simply treated those who were first in line or complained the loudest? This approach would be ineffective and would clearly cost lives. Why should we treat the world’s problem any differently?
How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place proves that a well-reasoned and practical consensus can be reached about how best to address the problems that trouble our world and it provides a valuable springboard into further discussion about issues that simply could not be more important.
● Abridged, accessible version of Lomborg's Global Crises, Global Solutions
● Perfect for experts in public policy, economics and political science, as well as those looking to learn more about these areas
● Innovative approach offers a balanced analysis on each of the issues
Contents
Introduction: what should we do first? Bjorn Lomborg; 1. Meeting the challenge of global warming William R. Cline; Opponents' views Robert Mendelsohn and Alan S. Manne; 2. Communicable diseases Anne Mills and Sam Shillcutt; Opponents' views David B. Evans and Jacques van der Gaag; 3. The challenge of reducing the global incidence of civil war Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler; Opponents' views Michael D. Intriligator and Tony Addison; 4. Towards a new consensus for addressing the global challenge of the lack of education Lant Pritchett; Opponents' views T. Paul Schultz and Ludger Wößmann; 5. The challenge of poor governance and corruption Susan Rose-Ackerman; Opponent's views Jens Christopher Andvig and Jean Cartier-Bresson; 6. Hunger and malnutrition Jere R. Behrman, Harold Alderman and John Hoddinott; Opponent's views Peter Svedberg and Simon Appleton; 7. Population and migration Philip Martin; Opponent's views Mark Rosenzweig and Roger Böhning; 8. The water challenge Frank Rijsberman; Opponent's views John J. Boland and Henry Vaux, Jr.; 9. Subsidies and trade barriers Kym Anderson; Opponent's views Jan Pronk and Arvind Panagariya.
Contributors
Bjorn Lomborg, William R. Cline, Robert Mendelsohn, Alan S. Manne, Anne Mills, Sam Shillcutt, David B. Evans, Jacques van der Gaag, Paul Collier, Anke Hoeffler, Michael D. Intriligator, Tony Addison, Lant Pritchett, T. Paul Schultz, Ludger Wößmann, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Jens Christopher Andvig, Jean Cartier-Bresson, Jere R. Behrman, Harold Alderman, John Hoddinott, Peter Svedberg, Simon Appleton, Philip Martin, Mark Rosenzweig, Roger Böhning, Frank Rijsberman, John J. Boland, Henry Vaux, Jr., Kym Anderson, Jan Pronk, Arvind Panagariya
