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Investable! : The dangers of innovative pandemic finance / Susan Erikson.

MIT Press Direct 2025 Trade Monographs Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Erikson, Susan, author.
Series:
The MIT Press
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Investments.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Influence.
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (251 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
2025.
Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2024
Summary:
"Offering new insights into the excesses of capitalism that are shaping pandemic preparedness, Investable! is an ethnography of a Wall Street bond designed to solve a big-ticket global health problem by getting global investors to gamble on the next crisis"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The World's Most Controversial Investment
What Are Pandemic Bonds?
Sierra Leone, a.k.a. Salone
The Bank that Took Pandemics to Wall Street
Personality Matters: Jim Yong Kim
The Designers: Treasury, Health, & Development Finance
Risk Business: Insurance-Linked Securities
Modeling Danger
The Data: Who Cares?
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
0-262-38017-X
0-262-38016-1
OCLC:
1518284838

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