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Posner, Richard A.

 
9780195306477: Catastrophe: Risk and Response
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ISBN 10: 0195306473 ISBN 13: 9780195306477
Editorial: Oxford University Press, 2006

Sinopsis

Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the possible extinction events that are sufficiently likely to warrant careful study. How should we respond to events that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, we find it hard to wrap our minds around? Posner argues that realism about science and scientists, innovative applications of cost-benefit analysis, a scientifically literate legal profession, unprecedented international cooperation, and a pragmatic attitude toward civil liberties are among the keys to coping effectively with the catastrophic risks.

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Acerca del autor

Richard A. Posner is Judge of the U.S. Court Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of numerous books, including Overcoming Law a New York Times Book Review editors' choices for best book of 1995 and An Affair of State, one of their choices for Best Book of the Year in 1999.


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Editorial
Oxford University Press
Año de publicación
2006
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0195306473
ISBN 13 
9780195306477
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
336
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