Vito Tanzi

Fragile Futures

The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Economic theory and government actions have not adequately anticipated statistically unpredictable events such as disasters and pandemics. These events require a global response, which the existing world institutional architecture has not prepared for. Future â progressâ for mankind is questionable in the absence of major institutional changes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 158mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9781009100120
• ISBN-10: 1009100122
• Artikelnr.: 62476407

Autorenporträt

Dr. Vito Tanzi has been Professor and Economic Chair at American University, Director for 20 years of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the IMF, and Undersecretary for Economy and Finance in the Italian Government. He is Honorary President of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) in Munich, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Uncertain Future Events and Reactions to Them: 1. Introduction
2. Risky versus uncertain events
3. Taxonomy of disasters
4. Democracy, capitalism and random events
Part II. A Survey of Past Pandemics and Other Disasters: 5. Uncertain future events and policies
6. Pandemics, famines and climate change
7. Major natural disasters
8. Atomic disasters
9. Industrial disasters
10. Economic principles for disasters
Part III. Climate Change and Global Warming: 11. When the Earth became man's private property
12. Early concerns about the environment
13. From environmental concerns to climate change
Part IV. Back to Some Theoretical Issues: 14. Human needs and economic theory
15. Concluding thoughts.