MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2011038071
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008 110912s2012 nyua b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aHG8054.5$b.P69 2012
082 00 $a368$223
100 1 $aPowers, Michael R.
245 10 $aActs of God and man :$bruminations on risk and insurance /$cMichael R. Powers.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia Business School Pub.,$cc2012.
300 $axvi, 283 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-274) and index.
505 0 $aLiving 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.
650 0 $aRisk (Insurance)
650 0 $aRisk management.