Dr. Bjorn Lomborg researches the smartest ways to do good. With his think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus, he has worked with hundreds of the world’s top economists and seven Nobel Laureates to find and promote the most effective solutions to the world’s greatest challenges, from disease and...
Follow him on twitter @BjornLomborg. Shermer and Lomborg discuss: perfect solutions vs. practical trade-offs benefit-cost analysis time horizons and discounting the future the value of a statistical life what are we trying to do? save the environment, the poor, the diseased? the millennium ...