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World leaders have promised everything to everyone. But they are failing. Together with more than a hundred of the world\\u2019s top economists, Bjorn Lomborg has worked for years to identify the world\\u2019s best solutions. Based on 12 new, peer-reviewed papers, forthcoming in Cambridge University Press\\u2019 Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, Lomborg\\u2019s latest book highlights the world\\u2019s best policies.

Shermer and Lomborg discuss: perfect solutions vs. practical trade-offs \\u2022 benefit-cost analysis \\u2022 time horizons and discounting the future \\u2022 the value of a statistical life \\u2022 saving the environment, the poor, the diseased \\u2022 the millennium development goals \\u2022 the sustainable development goals \\u2022 tuberculosis \\u2022 education \\u2022 maternal and newborn health \\u2022 agricultural R&D (more and cheaper food) \\u2022 malaria \\u2022 land tenure security \\u2022 nutrition \\u2022 chronic diseases \\u2022 childhood immunization \\u2022 corruption \\u2022 highly skilled migration.

Bjorn Lomborg is an academic and the author of the best-selling The Skeptical Environmentalist and Cool It. He is a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School, and president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center which brings together top economists, including seven Nobel Laureates, to set data-driven priorities for the world. Lomborg is a frequent commentator in print and broadcast media, for outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, CNN, FOX, and the BBC. His monthly column is published in 19 languages, in 30+ newspapers with more than 30 million readers globally. Follow him on twitter @BjornLomborg.