Should the climate change crisis be framed in security terms? Many argue that it is dangerous to treat non-military threats as issues. Such “securitization” associated with expansion of executive power and exercise exceptional measures involving suspension individual rights, secrecy, state violence, a weakening rule law. Nonetheless, has already been identified issue by many government agencies...

We propose a model of narrow framing in insurance and test it using data from a new module we designed and fielded in the Health and Retirement Study. We show that respondents subject to narrow framing are substantially less likely to buy long-term care insurance than average. This effect is distinct from, and much larger than, the effects of cautiousness, risk aversion, or adverse selection, a...

This document is an attempt to describe the landscape of cyber-security. It starts from a specific framing–why the technology associated with cyberspace is insecure. The central conclusion is that improving the security posture of the technology is not itself a simple technical problem, but requires an understanding of economic issues, incentives and externalities, coordination and leadership, ...

The experience of financial markets in the global economy is open to a variety of interpretations, based on different framings, with important consequences for economic policy. Knowledge about financial markets, and the methodology employed to build it, can be understood in terms of framing. The underlying argument of the paper is in favour of considering the framing financial markets within an...

Oceans are suffering from the dual climatic pressures of warming temperatures and acidification, increasing the presence of disease risks that affect marine organisms and public health. Through a randomized field-based experiment, this study examines the effects of communicating about risks to marine organisms and public health on people’s support for policies aimed at mitigating those risks as...

The paper is an exploratory description of a way of linking the experiences of undergraduate CIS majors to a required course on global, economic, social, and ethical issues of computing. The essay describes some issues with teaching the course and a way of handling ABET accreditation requirements. The essay briefly gives some assumptions framing the course. The paper then briefly describes a co...