The Philosophy of Risk

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Thomas Telford, 1998 - Business & Economics - 194 pages

This book gives decision-makers a logical overall philosophy of risk that will enable them to make sound and consistently defensible decisions about the acceptability of risk. The authors examine a variety of activities - as diverse as major industrial projects and medicine, finance and sport, transport and manufacturing - to identify the factors common to all determinations of risk acceptability, and develop a hypothesis about the aspects of risk that are universally acceptable.

 

Contents

Introduction 1233 +
2
Bias
11
Assessment of risk acceptability
121
An overall risk philosophy
143
References
161
Appendices
169
Glossary
185
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