num_pages: 320
description: How to better manage systemic risksfrom cyber attacks and pandemics to financial crises and climate changein a globalized worldThe Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the latest insights from a wide variety of disciplines Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan provide practical guidance for how governments businesses and individuals can better manage globalization and risk.Goldin and Mariathasan demonstrate that systemic risk issues are now endemic everywherein supply chains pandemics infrastructure ecology and climate change economics and politics. Unless we address these concerns they will lead to greater protectionism xenophobia nationalism and inevitably deglobalization rising inequality conflict and slower growth.The Butterfly Defect shows that mitigating uncertainty and risk in an interconnected world is an essential task for our future.
language: English
title: The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It
publisher: Princeton University Press