Acts of God and man : ruminations on risk and insurance
By: Powers, Michael R
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Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 368 PO AC (Browse shelf) | Available | T0057025 |
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368 HA RI Risk management and insurance / | 368 IM PL Implementing enterprise risk management : | 368 KA PR Principles of risk management and insurance / | 368 PO AC Acts of God and man : | 368 RE PR Principles of risk management and insurance / | 368 RE PR Principles of risk management and insurance / | 368 TR RI Risk management and insurance. |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-274) and index.
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.