Risk
Subtitle: a very short introduction
By: Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany
Contributors: Kadvany, John David
Series: Very short introductions -- 270; Very short introductions -- 270.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780199576203
Subjects: Risk-taking (Psychology); Risk assessment
Description: Risk is everywhere - from genetically modified crops, dams, and stem-cell therapy to heartbreak, online predators, inflation and robbery. This introduction examines what science has learned about how people deal with risks, what we can learn through decision theory, and how we can evaluate risk in our own lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-158) and index.