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Worst-Case Scenarios
by Cass R. Sunstein
from Harvard University Press
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Superb discussion of cost benefit analysis applied to extreme situations 
Cass Sunstein has written a superb analysis of how cost benefit analysis can usefully be applied to extreme situations - worst case scenarios. He takes up two - mostly climate change, but then compares it to counterterrorism. My comments below focus on the application of cost benefit analysis in responses to terrorism; I admire Sunstein's analysis, but think it has limitations in its application to terrorism.
Regnant approaches to terrorism are driven not just by narrow cost benefit analysis, but by a... more info
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Good read, good insights, but makes leaps of faith that fall short 
I recommend reading this book. Dr. Sunstein considers many modes of thought and the book should get you thinking.
Throughout the book Dr. Sunstein uses two main narratives to examine how people react to uncertainty, Terrorism and Global Warming. He provides a very PC perspective, probably to better reach a broad audience and get them thinking about how we deal with what we don't know. The book is an exercise to get the lay person thinking about uncertainty rather than an objective analysis of how to... more info
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