Risk : a very short introduction /
"We find risks everywhere - from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadv...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2011.
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| Series: | Very short introductions ;
170. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "We find risks everywhere - from genetically modified crops, medical malpractice, and stem-cell therapy to intimacy, online predators, identity theft, inflation, and robbery. They arise from our own acts and they are imposed on us. In this Very Short Introduction, Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany draw on the sciences and humanities to explore and explain the many kinds of risk. Using simple conceptual frameworks from decision theory and behavioural research, they examine the science and practice of creating measures of risk, showing how scientists address risks by combining historical records, scientific theories, probability, and expert judgment. Risk: A Very Short Introduction describes what has been learned by cognitive scientists about how people deal with risks, applying these lessons to diverse examples, and demonstrating how understanding risk can aid choices in everyday life and public policies for health, safety, environment, finance, and many other topics."--from publisher's site. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 162 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191617799 (ebook) 0191617792 (ebook) |