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Catastrophe: Risk and Response
	Cover of the first edition
Author	Richard Posner
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	2004
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	336
ISBN	978-0195306477

Catastrophe: Risk and Response is a 2004 book by the economist Richard Posner, in which the author advocates the use of a cost–benefit framework to address potential major disasters such as runaway global warming and planet-obliterating asteroids.^[1]