A Book review of mine about Bjorn Lomborg's How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place is up at In The Fray:
While Lomborg's instinct to create order of the chaos makes sense, the act of ranking comes off as a rather whack-a-mole approach to deep, systemic problems. And if you're looking for substance beyond the surface, it just isn't there. Can you seriously discuss climate change in 18 pages? Or communicable diseases in 19 pages? Given that short shrift, it's a wonder the economists were even able to rank these issues. Overall, the result is simplistic, abrupt, and – paradoxically – unfocused for such a short book, which leaves the reader wondering if a white paper or article might have been a more appropriate vehicle for these ideas.
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