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Using simple economic reasoning, this book analyzes a broad range of global challenges including global warming, ozone shield depletion, acid rain, nuclear waste disposal, revolution dispersion, international terrorism, disease eradication, population growth, tropical deforestation, and peacemaking. These challenges are put into perspective in terms of scientific, economic, and political considerations. Many of these contingencies are shown to be solvable or reduceable without much explicit coordination among nations. Although there is no single panacea for these challenges, much can be done to tailor solutions. This book is intended for a wide audience drawn from the social sciences, including economics, environmental studies, political science, sociology, and public policy. It should also interest the general reader who wants to learn about global challenges.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521587495
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 6/28/1997
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Apocalypse now or never? 1
2 Global interdependencies: Basic tools and principles 23
3 For our children's children 52
4 Global house 84
5 Architecture of institutions 142
6 Change we must: Evolutionary concerns 165
7 Equity among nations? 182
8 Near horizons 199
References 215
Author index 227
Subject index 230
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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 9, 2002

    Economic Logic Applied to 'Global Challenges'

    I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It takes the logic of economic theory (primarily economic game theory) and applies it to problems that either are affecting, or potentially will affect, everyone on this planet. These 'Global Challanges' and the conditions necessary for their solution are then analyzed using the logic inherent to economic game theory. An excellent book that can be read by all people regardless of their knowledge of economics, as everything is explained with the assumption that the reader has never been exposed to the concepts. Helpful even to those who do have an understanding of economics

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