The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It

by Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan

Book Overview

How to better manage systemic risks--from cyber attacks and pandemics to financial crises and climate change--in a globalized world

The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the latest insights from a wide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691154708
• ISBN13: 9780691154701
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"