Richard Day emphasize the importance of moving economics toward the realism of dynamic behavior. He recognizes that economic systems are nonlinear, requiring more powerful methods of analysis. Day's book is a significant step along the road to full-scale nonlinear dynamics in economics.
Jay W. Forrester, Professor of Management, Emeritus, and Senior Lecturer, Sloan School, MIT
For almost a decade, Joe Thornton has offered his thoughtful analysesof the organochlorine problem to the scientific community and to theconcerned public. Pandora's Poison is hispièce de résistance. Thornton's quiet passionand no-stone-left-unturned research style combine to create a powerfulargument. I've been waiting a long time for this book.
Sandra Steingraber, author of Living Downstream: AnEcologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
For years we have bet our health and the health of ourplanet on the demonstrably false notion that we can determine the riskof individual chemical pollutants and regulate them accordingly. It isnow evident that we have lost the bet—widespread and deadlyenvironmental contamination are the penalty. In this brilliant andlucidly written book, Joe Thornton describes an ecologically,economically, and chemically sophisticated alternative to thepollute-and-regulate system that has failed us so badly.Pandora's Poison is a breath of clean air at thestart of a new century.
David Ehrenfeld, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Biology, RutgersUniversity, and author of The Arrogance of Humanism
In Pandora's Poison, Joe Thornton has given usa brilliant analysis of the persistent toxic impact of the massiveproduction and environmental dissemination of synthetic chlorinatedorganic chemicals. He has masterfully woven together a lucid account ofthe molecular, biological, medical, and political aspects of amonumental industrial mistake and has designed an incisive way ofending this unnatural global disaster.
Barry Commoner, Director, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Queens College, City University of New York
Joe Thornton has produced a ground-breaking treatise in environmental health. Authoritatively documented and accessible to the non-specialist, Pandora's Poison is a broad interdisciplinary analysis of both the science and the public policy of chemical pollution and argues for bold, innovative approaches to pollution prevention.
Philip Landrigan, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Preventive and Community Medicine, Center for Children's Health and the Environment, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Joe Thornton has written the best book on environmental policy I've read in the past decade. The case he makes is authoritative, clear, and compelling. It deserves center stage.
David W. Orr, Chair, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College
...Thornton articulates a new strategy for eradicating one of the world's most pervasive and dangerous pollutants: organochlorines.
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