How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place

In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to acheive the greatest good with our money. This concise volume provides a rich set of dialogs examining ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: climate change, the spread of communicable diseases, conflicts and arms proliferation, access to education, financial instability, governance and corruption, malnutrition and hunger, migration, sanitation and access to clean water, and subsidies and trade barriers. Each issue is introduced by a world renowned expert who defines the scale of the problem and examines a range of policy options. Shorter pieces offer alternative positions. Three Noble Laureates are included.