Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance

by Frank Ackerman

Book Overview

Why do climate and financial crises pose such extreme risks? And what does it take to respond effectively to those risks? Extreme weather events - storms and sea-level rise, heat waves, droughts and floods - seem ever more common and extreme, while scientists warn of even greater climate risks ahead. Financial failures on the scale of 2008 make a mockery of the supposed efficiency of the market economy. None of this would be possible in the world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783087072
• ISBN13: 9781783087075
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"