This examines many of the most publicised recent crises in the markets and suggests that these were not as troubling as they seemed, or owed more to bad government policy than market failure.

ECONOMIST: Acknowledgments

Haqq-Misr for the journal Acta Astronautica examines a broad range of scenarios, many familiar to science-fiction buffs (see chart, below).

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