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- Pricing Externalities to Balance Public Risks and Benefits of Research. (Farquhar, S., Cotton-Barratt, O., Snyder-Beattie, A. 2017. Health Security. DOI: 10.1089/hs.2016.0118)
- Beyond risk-benefit analysis: pricing externalities for dual use research of concern. (Cotton-Barratt, O., Farquhar, S. & Snyder-Beattie, A. 2016.)
- Underprotection of unpredictable statistical lives compared to predictable ones. (Lipsitch, M., Evans, N, & Cotton-Barratt, O. (2016). Risk Analysis.)
- Existential Risk and Existential Hope: Definitions (Cotton-Barratt, O. & Ord, T. 2015. Technical Report #2015-1. Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford.)
- Allocating risk mitigation across time. (Cotton-Barratt, O. 2015. Technical Report #2015-2. Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford & Global Priorities Project.)
- Unprecedented technological risks. (Beckstead, N., Bostrom, N., Bowerman, N., Cotton-Barratt, O., MacAskill, W., Ó hÉigeartaigh, S., & Ord, T. 2014. Future of Humanity Institute)