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• MHarrisOct 10, 2017, 4:10 PM

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  on: Chang­ing the Govern­ment’s Ap­proach to Catas­trophic Risks

  One issue to consider is whether catastrophic risk is a sufficiently popular issue for an agency to use it to sustain itself. Independent organisations can be vulnerable to cuts. This probably varies a lot by country.

• MHarrisOct 10, 2017, 4:05 PM

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  in reply to: nexech’s comment on: Chang­ing the Govern­ment’s Ap­proach to Catas­trophic Risks

  This book is a core text on this subject, which explicitly considers when specific agencies are effective and motivated to pursue particular goals: https://​​www.amazon.co.uk/​​Bureaucracy-Government-Agencies-Basic-Classics/​​dp/​​0465007856

  I’m also reminded of Nate Silver’s interviews with the US hurricane forecasting agency in The Signal and the Noise.