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