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Why cooperate?

Joanna Dafoe is joined by Professor Scott Barrett who is the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University and researches the policy response to transnational challenges like climate change. He has been an adviser to the European Commission, the OECD, the World Bank, and the United Nations. Joanna talks to him about his most recent book is called “Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods”.

You can see the complete episode here: TGM #215 – Instruments of Progress (November 12, 2010)