Why Cooperate?

The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

Scott Barrett

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Oxford University Press
01 August 2007

Globalization; International relations; Geopolitics; International institutions; Political economy; Public international law; Pollution & threats to the environment

Climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the threat of a global pandemic have the potential to impact each of our lives. Preventing these threats poses a serious global challenge, but ignoring them could have disastrous consequences. How do we engineer institutions to change incentives so that these global public goods are provided? Scott Barrett provides a thought provoking and accessible introduction to the issues surrounding the provision of global public goods. Using a variety of examples to illustrate past successes and failures, he shows how international cooperation, institutional design, and the clever use of incentives can work together to ensure the effective delivery of global public goods.

By: Scott Barrett
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 475g
ISBN: 9780199211890
ISBN 10: 0199211892
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 01 August 2007
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Scott Barrett is Professor and Director of International Policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He was previously an advisor to the International Task Force on Global Public Goods, and drew upon his work for the Task Force in preparing this book. He wrote the book while on sabbatical as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University. His previous book, Environment and Statecraft, was published by OUP in paperback in 2005.

Reviews for Why Cooperate?: The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods

<br> An idealistic as well as sensible prescription for how to tackle in a practical manner the genuinely complex issues of our new global era --Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)<br> Scott Barrett offers a simple yet powerful architecture for the different incentives that make international cooperation, in matters as diverse as measles and oil spills, greenhouse gases and nuclear proliferation, necessary or unnecessary, achievable or unachievable. Like his earlier Environment and Statecraft(Oxford 2003) this one is game theory at its most lucid, most valuable and most accessible--an exciting and rewarding book. --Thomas C. Schelling, 2005 Nobel Prize for Economics Laureate and Distinguisted University Professor, University of Maryland<br> Scott Barrett deals with some of the most important global issues of the day with a clarity and lightness of touch which never betray the complexity and depth of the problems. Cooperatoin