Catastrophe: Risk and Response

by Richard A. Posner

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Published2004 · Oxford University Press
Pages336
ISBN9780195178135
Date FinishedNovember 1, 2012
Read2012
ReviewedNovember 1, 2012

One sentence review: cost-benefit analysis should be used for everything.

Second sentence review: because it means you can avoid real policy analysis by reducing everything to money at the highest levels and telling somebody else to do the important work.

Third sentence review: if every economics department in the country were to catch on fire, would anybody care?


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