Character of Harms Operational Challenges in Control

Name: Character of Harms Operational Challenges in Control
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ISBN: 9780521872102

ISBN-10: 0521872103

ISBN-13: 9780521872102

Edition: 2008

Authors: Malcolm K. Sparrow

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How should we deal with societal ills such as crime, poverty, pollution, terrorism, and corruption? A Harvard professor and former Detective Chief Inspector of the British Police, Malcolm Sparrow argues that control or mitigation of these and other "bad" things involves distinctive patterns of thought and action which turn out to be broadly applicable across a range of human endeavors, and which need to be better understood. In this provocative new book, he demonstrates that an explicit focus on the bads, rather than on the countervailing goods (safety, prosperity, environmental stewardship, etc.) can provide rich opportunities for surgically efficient and effective interventions - an…

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List price: $47.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/17/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 271
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The nature of the control task



Which way up, and does it matter?



A different type of work



Defining problems: setting the scale



Defining problems: picking the dimensions



Patterns of thought and action



Puzzles of measurement



Structures, protocols, and interactions



Special categories of harms



Invisible harms



Conscious opponents



Catastrophic harms



Harms in equilibrium



Performance-enhancing risks


Conclusion


Index