Risk, uncertainty, and rational action /

"Risk", as we now know it, is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever-more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it demands a new way of looking at technological and environmental uncertainty. In this volume, four of the world'...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Jaeger, Carlo
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Earthscan, 2001.
Series:	Risk, society, and policy series.
Subjects:	Risk assessment. Risk management. Risk perception. Rational choice theory. Decision making. Social sciences > Philosophy. Risk Assessment Risk Management Decision Making Évaluation du risque. Gestion du risque. Perception du risque. Théorie des choix rationnels. Prise de décision. Sciences sociales > Philosophie. risk assessment. risk management. decision making. Entscheidung bei Risiko Risicotheorie. Risicoanalyse. risico risk risicogedrag risk behaviour onzekerheid uncertainty menselijk gedrag human behaviour actieonderzoek action research rationalisme rationalism Management studies, Business Administration, Organizational Science (General) Management, bedrijfskunde, organisatiekunde (algemeen)
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Table of Contents:

Foreword / James F. Short, Jr.
1. General Introduction
1.1. Risk, Ontological Security, and Uncertainty
1.2. What Is Risk?
1.3. The Rational Actor Paradigm (RAP)
2. Rap: The Monarch and His Shaky Kingdom
2.1. Philosophical Underpinnings of RAP
2.2. Economics: RAP as a General Theory
2.3. Inside the Atom: RAP and Psychology
2.4. Sociology and RAP: The Fundamental Tension
3. Risky Decisions of a Single Agent
3.1. The Monarch and Risk: A Love-Hate Relationship
3.2. Insurance and Portfollo Investment
3.3. Decision Analysis
3.4. Quantitative Risk Assessments
3.5. Natural Hazards
3.6. Cognitive Psychology
3.7. Problems of Policy Making
4. Risky Decisions of Interacting Agents
4.1. Risk in the Theory of Games
4.2. Risk Communication
4.3. Risk and Social Movements
4.4. Organizations and RAP
5. Challenges and Alternatives to Rap in the Study of Risk
5.1. Cooperative Discourse about a Risk Problem
5.2. Risk and Organizations
5.3. The Concept of Social Amplification of Risk
5.4. The Arena Metaphor
5.5. Cultural Theory of Risk
5.6. The Social Systems View of Risks
6. Modernity and Beyond
6.1. Risk and Modernization
6.2. Risk and Scientific Rationality
6.3. Post-Modernism
6.4. Fundamentalist Revivals
6.5. The Relevance of Critical Theory
7. From Monological to Dialogical Rationality
7.1. The Nature of the Challenge
7.2. Elements of a New Paradigm
7.3. The Practical Context.