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072 7 _aSOC002010
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSunstein, Cass R.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aAverting Catastrophe :
_bDecision Theory for COVID-19, Climate Change, and Potential Disasters of All Kinds /
_cCass R. Sunstein.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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520 _aBest-selling author Cass R. Sunstein examines how to avoid worst-case scenariosThe world is increasingly confronted with new challenges related to climate change, globalization, disease, and technology. Governments are faced with having to decide how much risk is worth taking, how much destruction and death can be tolerated, and how much money should be invested in the hopes of avoiding catastrophe. Lacking full information, should decision-makers focus on avoiding the most catastrophic outcomes? When should extreme measures be taken to prevent as much destruction as possible?Averting Catastrophe explores how governments ought to make decisions in times of imminent disaster. Cass R. Sunstein argues that using the "maximin rule," which calls for choosing the approach that eliminates the worst of the worst-case scenarios, may be necessary when public officials lack important information, and when the worst-case scenario is too disastrous to contemplate. He underscores this argument by emphasizing the reality of "Knightian uncertainty," found in circumstances in which it is not possible to assign probabilities to various outcomes. Sunstein brings foundational issues in decision theory in close contact with real problems in regulation, law, and daily life, and considers other potential future risks. At once an approachable introduction to decision-theory and a provocative argument for how governments ought to handle risk, Averting Catastrophe offers a definitive path forward in a world rife with uncertainty.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
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653 _a.
653 _aCost-benefit analysis.
653 _aEnvironment.
653 _aIncommensurability.
653 _aIrreversible losses.
653 _aKnightian uncertainty.
653 _aLosses.
653 _aMaximin.
653 _aNatural.
653 _aPrecautionary principle.
653 _aRegulation.
653 _aRegulations.
653 _aWorst-case scenarios.
653 _aclimate change.
653 _adanger.
653 _aignorance.
653 _aloss aversion.
653 _alosses.
653 _apandemics.
653 _arisk aversion.
653 _arisk.
653 _auncertainty.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
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