Worst-Case Economics

Worst-Case EconomicsIn both climate change and financial crises, worst case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. Worst Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.

allowing the book to become a reference map of the cinema

• conceptual analysis of documents

being the testimonial narrative of Esteban Montejo

Culture War focuses on Denmark's experience during this period

and his compositions about soldiers disabled in the Great War

A social history of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic’s effects on an Ireland where normal patterns of life were disturbed by war and the growing separatist movement

this book shows how he sets out an evolutionary form of global and national democracy

Through case studies from around the world

This book combines theories of power with empirical material on children’s lives across the world to propose a novel framework for understanding kid power

An examination of British and French deposition and exile of indigenous monarchs in Asia and Africa from 1815 until the 1950s

This book analyses representations of death and dying in modern Western theatre from the late nineteenth century onward

this book shows how tales of love and arms mystified global conquest (in such places as Mexico