Acknowledgments

PART Ⅰ. Uncertain Future Events and Reactions to them
1. Introduction
2. Risky Versus Uncertain events
3. Taxonomy of disasters
4. Democracy, Capitalism, and Random events

PART Ⅱ. Pandemics and Other Disaters
5. Pandemics, Plagues, and Epidemics
6. Famines
7. Natural disaters
8. Atomic disaters
9. Industrial disaters
10. Guiding economic principles for disaters

PART Ⅲ. Climate Change and Global Warming
11. When the earth beacame man's private property
12. Early concerns about the environment
13. From environmental concerns to climate change
14. From climate change to global warming

PART Ⅳ. Back to some Theoretical Issues
15. Human nees and economic theory
16. Concluding Thoughts

References
Index