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Columbia Business School Pub.
Language
English

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Subjects
Risk management, Risk (Insurance), Risk (insurance), Risk assessment

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Acts of god and man: ruminations on risk and insurance
2012, Columbia Business School Pub.
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Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance
2011, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents

Living with risk
The alpha and the omega of risk the significance of mortality
Into the unknown modeling uncertainty
The shapes of things to come probabilities and parameters
The value of experience independence and estimation
It's all in your head bayesian decision making
The realm of insurance
Aloofness and quasi-aloofness defining insurance risks
Trustworthy transfer; probable pooling financing insurance risks
God-awful guessing and bad behavior solvency and underwriting
The good, the bad, the role of risk classification
And the lawyerly liability and government compensation
Scientific challenges
What is randomness? knowable and unknowable complexity
Patterns, real and imagined observation and theory
False choices and black boxes the costs of limited data
Nullifying the dull hypothesis conventional versus personalized science
Games and the mind modeling human behavior.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
368
Library of Congress
HG8054.5 .P69 2012, HB615

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL25033481M
ISBN 13
9780231153669
LCCN
2011038071
OCLC/WorldCat
769274157

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