| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2011038071 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780231153669 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
368 PO AC |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Authors |
Powers, Michael R. |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Acts of God and man : |
| Subtitle |
ruminations on risk and insurance |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Michael R. Powers |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
New York : |
| Publisher |
Columbia Business School Pub., |
| Date |
c2012. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvi, 283 p. : |
| Other Details |
ill. ; |
| Size |
24 cm. |
| CONTENTS |
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| 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. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Heading |
Risk (Insurance) |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Heading |
Risk management |
| ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://uowd.box.com/s/90z38a4n05g6hz1hq9d5myqrd3wywrsw |
| Public note |
Location Map |
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7038 |
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7039 |
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199 |