Acts of god and man
Subtitle: ruminations on risk and insurance
By: Michael R. Powers
Publisher: Columbia Business School Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231153669
Subjects: Risk management; Risk (Insurance)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Living with risk; title: The alpha and the omega of risk the significance of mortality; title: Into the unknown modeling uncertainty; title: The shapes of things to come probabilities and parameters; title: The value of experience independence and estimation; title: It's all in your head bayesian decision making; title: The realm of insurance; title: Aloofness and quasi-aloofness defining insurance risks; title: Trustworthy transfer; probable pooling financing insurance risks; title: God-awful guessing and bad behavior solvency and underwriting; title: The good, the bad, the role of risk classification; title: And the lawyerly liability and government compensation; title: Scientific challenges; title: What is randomness? knowable and unknowable complexity; title: Patterns, real and imagined observation and theory; title: False choices and black boxes the costs of limited data; title: Nullifying the dull hypothesis conventional versus personalized science; title: Games and the mind modeling human behavior.