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|title= How Much have Global Problems Cost the World?: A Scorecard from 1900 to 2050

|author=Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)

|publisher=Cambridge University Press

|date=October 2013

|summary=This important reference book from the Copenhagen Consensus Centre attempts to evaluate the relative economic impact of ten key issues in world development. Discrete papers extrapolate from available data from the twentieth century to model projections to 2050. The editor, Bjørn Lomborg, evaluates the relative negative or positive economic effects of the ten topics, looking backwards and forwards, in a useful introduction.

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''If you want to know how the world is doing, and get hard, comparable numbers to back it up, this is where to go…'' says Alix Peterson Zwane, Executive Director, Evidence Action and the Deworm the World Initiative, and former Senior Program Officer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Well, I’m not an expert and therefore can only speak from the viewpoint of a general reader.