Vito Tanzi

Fragile Futures (eBook, ePUB)

The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John Maynard Keynes: that between statistically predictable future events ('risks') and statistically unpredictable, uncertain events ('uncertainties'). Governments have generally ignored the latter, perceiving phenomena such as pandemics, natural disasters and climate change as uncontrollable Acts of God. As a result, there has been little if any preparation for future catastrophes. Our modern society is more interconnected and more globalized than ever. Dealing with uncertain future events requires a stronger and more globally coordinated government response. This book suggests a larger, more global government role in dealing with these disasters and keeping economic inequalities low. Major institutional changes, such as regulating the private sector for the common good and dealing with special harms, risks and crises, especially those concerning climate change and pandemics, are necessary in order to achieve any semblance of future progress for humankind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009117937
• Artikelnr.: 66176939

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.