ISBN 978-1-847-92037-9 (hbk). “A blueprint for a safer planet – how to manage climate change and create a new era of progress and prosperity” by Nicholas Stern was published by The Bodley Head in 2009. Stern is of course the famous author of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and former Chief Economist at the World Bank. One may think that Stern would be slightly away with the fairies in this 246 page book (including acknowledgements, introduction, ten chapters, notes, bibliography and index). However a stint in the World Bank doesn’t seem to have cured him of his fanciful sense of morality that may so alienate him from what might be considered the mainstream of Economic study. Continue reading →