Catastrophe : risk and response
"How should the nation and the world respond to disaster possibilities that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, people find hard to wrap their minds around? Richard Posner shows that what is needed is a fresh, thoroughly interdisciplinary perspective that will meld the insights of lawyers, economists, psychologists, and other social scientists with those of researchers in the physical sciences. Responsibility for averting catastrophe cannot be left either to scientists or to politicians and other policymakers ignorant of science." "As in many of his previous books, Posner brings law and the social sciences to bear on a contemporary problem - in this case one of particular urgency. Weighing the risk and the possible responses in each case, Posner shows us what to worry about and what to dismiss, and discusses concrete ways of minimizing the most dangerous risks."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006