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Foolproof

why safety can be dangerous and how danger makes us safe

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An edition of Foolproof (2015)

Foolproof

why safety can be dangerous and how danger makes us safe

First edition.

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  • 1 Have read

"We have learned a staggering amount about human nature and disaster -- yet we keep having car crashes, floods, and financial crises. Partly this is because the success we have at making life safer enables us to take bigger risks. As our cities, transport systems, and financial markets become more interconnected and complex, so does the potential for catastrophe. How do we stay safe? Should we? What if our attempts are exposing us even more to the very risks we are avoiding? Would acceptance of danger make us more secure? Is there such a thing as foolproof?"--

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326

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Subjects

Risk management, Safety measures, Danger perception, Survival, Life skills, Risk, Risk assessment, Risk perception, Social aspects, Aspects économiques, Aspects psychologiques, Analyse des risques, Gestion, Risques financiers, Wirtschaftliches Verhalten, Risikomanagement, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, Hazard mitigation, Risk Management, Gestion du risque, Habiletés de base, Sécurité, Mesures, Perception du danger, Habiletés de survie, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Industries, General
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Table of Contents

Progressives, engineers, and ecologists
"Please, God, not in my district": before the economy could destroy itself, first Paul Volcker had to save it
Now is the time to panic: what to do when safety fails
More risk, please: the unintended consequences of football helmets and antilock brakes
The trouble with savings: from gold standard to euro
Unnatural disaster: the high cost of taming Mother Nature
Good risk, bad risk: balancing safety with disaster
The rescuer's dilemma: chaos today or chaos tomorrow?
The price of peace of mind: why insurance protects us from small disasters but not big ones
"If you think you are dangerous, you are safe": why airplanes hardly ever crash
A foolproofer's handbook: how to make the most of our best instincts.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-312) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
158.1 I64 2015
Library of Congress
HD61 .I62 2015, HD61 .I6 2015, HD61.I6 2015, HM1101 . I6 2015, HB615 .I62 2015, HB615

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 326 pages
Number of pages
326

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27190629M
Internet Archive
foolproofwhysafe0000ipgr_t5b8
ISBN 10
0316286044
ISBN 13
9780316286046
LCCN
2015937504
OCLC/WorldCat
902831348, 922965796
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