How to Unleash Efficiency to Solve the World's Problems

Can some of the most complicated and controversial political issues be solved through simple cost-benefit analysis? Author, visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, the President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, and visiting Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Bjorn Lomborg and Will dissect this very question.

Will and Bjorn discuss his new book, Best Things First: The 12 most efficient solutions for the world's poorest and our global SDG promises, deep diving into some of the world's most complicated and divisive issues from climate change to poverty.

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23 Jun 2023

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