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Taming Risk

Author : Jan Burzyñski
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443856088
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Taming Risk written by Jan Burzyñski and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary and multifaceted work investigates the traumatic character of (late) modernity from the perspectives of risk and trust regarded as correlates to human actions, as well as forms of social consciousness and cultural production in contemporary, post-industrial societies. In this way, the book gestures towards an interpretative framework in which modern social structures and systems may be effectively conceptualised in an overtly phenomenological context that entails the understanding of risk and trust as significant elements of human experience, social knowledge and a personal motivation to take goal-oriented actions. Being focused upon searching for inter-subjective mechanisms fostering the inherent societal dynamism of risk societies, the volume offers an integrative perspective in risk studies in which risk and trust-related considerations are perceived in terms of sociological theories aiming to reconcile the dimensions of agency and structure. Methodologically speaking, the text advances a comfortable theoretical vantage point for observing the ontology of late modernity in the context of an interplay between agential experiences of uncertainty, as well as systemic and structural frameworks of exposures to technological risks. Needless to say, the work is a must-read for scholars and researchers in the fields of theoretical sociology, risk studies, modernization theories, and cultural studies.

Taming the Risk Hurricane

Author : David Hillson
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1523000503
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Taming the Risk Hurricane written by David Hillson and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading expert on risk management describes how to steer your company through a risk hurricane-the extreme risk exposure that can lead to major disruption for your business. Risk management has become a standard part of the strategic tool kit, providing senior leaders with a forward-looking radar to scan the future and give early warnings of approaching threats and opportunities. However, even best-in-class organizations can falter in the face of extreme risk exposure. Special circumstances demand special responses, and extreme risk exposure needs very careful handling. Routine risk management approaches will fall short, but businesses that demonstrate a high degree of flexibility and resilience will have the competitive advantage and the ability to thrive where others fail. The causes and consequences of meteorological hurricanes have parallels in the way uncontrolled risk exposure can develop in organizations. Both are caused largely by predictable factors, but both are characterized by sustained uncertainty and severe impact once they develop. If we can learn to predict a risk hurricane, prepare for it effectively, and survive its effects, then our organizations will be well placed to address the challenge of extreme risk exposure, if and when we are unfortunate enough to face it.

Taming Risk

Author : Mark Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taming Risk written by Mark Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taming Risk is aimed at professionals involved in credit portfolio management in banks, insurance companies, money funds and government agencies, as well as risk managers and regulators.

Taming an Uncertain Future

Author : Liam P.D. Stockdale
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783485027
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Taming an Uncertain Future written by Liam P.D. Stockdale and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular cliché in contemporary public discourse holds that we live in a time of increasing uncertainty; that the next catastrophe is perpetually imminent and yet increasingly beyond our capacity to foresee. The future, in short, is becoming much more difficult to control. One consequence of this increasingly widespread understanding of the future is that societies have turned to anticipatory governance strategies based on such concepts as risk management, the precautionary principle, and pre-emption to manage human affairs. This book takes an in-depth look at this trend by using the example of the ‘pre-emptive security’ strategies deployed in the post-9/11 War on Terror to develop a critical understanding of how the proliferation of such anticipatory governance strategies affects the way political power is organized and exercised. The book also makes a wider case for taking issues of time and the future more seriously in the study of contemporary global politics in particular and the social world more generally.

The Taming of Education

Author : Rob Creasy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319622471
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Taming of Education written by Rob Creasy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment shapes the educational experience and influences pupils and students. It adopts a critical approach, arguing that there is a need for students to develop critical thinking skills, be flexible and have the capacity for originality. Education has increasingly come to be seen as a process with qualifications as the output; however, as economies change, attaining advantage increasingly relies on creativity and originality. Unfortunately, in the quest to remove uncertainty from education, creativity and originality are often overlooked; and the result is that education is impoverished. Creasy argues here that there is no single factor that has shaped education and led to this situation; rather, developments within education can be seen as having been shaped by a range of forces such as neoliberalism, New Public Management, standardization and internationalization. This is not to claim any deliberate undermining of education, but the cumulative effect is that education is less and less fit for purpose. Written for anyone involved in education, student, teacher or manager, this book draws upon Educations Studies, Sociology and Social Policy to offer a compelling critique of contemporary education.

The Taming of Fate

Author : Macamo, Elisio S.
Publisher : CODESRIA
ISBN 13 : 2869787197
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book The Taming of Fate written by Macamo, Elisio S. and published by CODESRIA. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how extreme situations appearing to have a destructive potential can actually be used to produce meaningful individual and social lives. It is about the “taming of fate”. This notion means and accounts for the ability of individuals and communities to rebuild their lives against all odds. The book is based on case-studies that draw from theoretical insights derived from the sociology of disasters. It addresses some limitations of the sociology of risk, chief among which is the rejection of the relevance of the notion of risk to the study of technologically non-advanced societies. The book argues that this rejection has deprived the study of the human condition of an important analytical asset. The book claims that risk is a property of social action which can best be understood through the analytical scrutiny of its role in the historical constitution of social relations.

Taming Childhood?

Author : Rob Creasy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030118428
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Taming Childhood? written by Rob Creasy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the links between recent reports of increasing levels of unhappiness and mental health problems amongst children and young people, and changes within childhood which restrict and reduce opportunities for children to develop and maintain resilience. Although in academic terms children may be viewed as beings, Creasy and Corby posit that there is much to suggest that for parents, practitioners and policy-makers, children are primarily seen as becomings. The book argues that viewing children as becomings, together with the idea that childhood is fraught with danger, contributes to practices and policies which can be seen as making childhood tame. This taming of childhood leads to an impoverished childhood that does not provide the space that children need to grow and develop. Furthermore, Taming Childhood? challenges the idea that young adults are 'snowflakes', unable to cope with everyday pressures. Students and scholars across a range of social science disciplines will find this book of interest.

Risk

Author : Arwen P. Mohun
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408252
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Risk written by Arwen P. Mohun and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have Americans confronted, managed, and even enjoyed the risks of daily life? Winner of the Ralph Gomory Prize of the Business History Conference “Risk” is a capacious term used to describe the uncertainties that arise from physical, financial, political, and social activities. Practically everything we do carries some level of risk—threats to our bodies, property, and animals. How do we determine when the risk is too high? In considering this question, Arwen P. Mohun offers a thought-provoking study of danger and how people have managed it from pre-industrial and industrial America up until today. Mohun outlines a vernacular risk culture in early America, one based on ordinary experience and common sense. The rise of factories and machinery eventually led to shocking accidents, which, she explains, risk-management experts and the “gospel of safety” sought to counter. Finally, she examines the simultaneous blossoming of risk-taking as fun and the aggressive regulations that follow from the consumer-products-safety movement. Risk and society, a rapidly growing area of historical research, interests sociologists, psychologists, and other social scientists. Americans have learned to tame risk in both the workplace and the home. Yet many of us still like amusement park rides that scare the devil out of us; they dare us to take risks.

Taming the Cycles of Finance?

Author : Matthias Thiemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009233106
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Taming the Cycles of Finance? written by Matthias Thiemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macroprudential regulation is a set of economic and policy tools that aim to mitigate risk in the financial and banking systems. It was largely developed in response to the financial crisis of 2007-08, turning central banks into de facto financial policemen. Taming the Cycles of Finance traces the post-crisis rise of macroprudential regulation and argues that, despite its original aims, it typically supports finance in times of crisis but fails to curb it in times of booms. Investigating how different macroprudential frameworks developed in the UK, the USA and the Eurozone, the book explains how central bank economists went about building early warning systems to identify fragilities in the financial system. It then shows how administrative and political constraints limited the effects of this shift, as central banks were wary of intervening in a discretionary manner and policymakers were opposed to measures to limit credit growth.

The Social Roots of Risk

Author : Kathleen Tierney
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804791406
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Social Roots of Risk written by Kathleen Tierney and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book about risk and disaster—and how they get amplified—is fascinating and hugely important as we face an ever-more-turbulent world.” —Rebecca Solnit, award-winning author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable. The Social Roots of Risk argues against the widespread notion that cataclysmic occurrences are singular events, driven by forces beyond our control. Instead, Kathleen Tierney contends that disasters of all types—be they natural, technological, or economic—are rooted in common social and institutional sources. Put another way, risks and disasters are produced by the social order itself—by governing bodies, organizations, and groups that push for economic growth, oppose risk-reducing regulation, and escape responsibility for tremendous losses when they occur. Considering a wide range of historical and looming events—from a potential mega-earthquake in Tokyo that would cause devastation far greater than what we saw in 2011, to BP’s accident history prior to the 2010 blowout—Tierney illustrates trends in our behavior, connecting what seem like one-off events to illuminate historical patterns. Like risk, human resilience also emerges from the social order, and this book makes a powerful case that we already have a significant capacity to reduce the losses that disasters produce. A provocative rethinking of the way that we approach and remedy disasters, The Social Roots of Risk leaves readers with a better understanding of how our own actions make us vulnerable to the next big crisis—and what we can do to prevent it. “Brilliant . . . Drawing on a trove of timely case studies, Tierney analyses how factors such as speculative finance and rampant development allow natural and economic blips to tip more easily into catastrophe.” —Nature

Taming Uncertainty

Author : Ralph Hertwig
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262353148
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Taming Uncertainty written by Ralph Hertwig and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the cognitive tools that the mind uses to grapple with uncertainty in the real world. How do humans navigate uncertainty, continuously making near-effortless decisions and predictions even under conditions of imperfect knowledge, high complexity, and extreme time pressure? Taming Uncertainty argues that the human mind has developed tools to grapple with uncertainty. Unlike much previous scholarship in psychology and economics, this approach is rooted in what is known about what real minds can do. Rather than reducing the human response to uncertainty to an act of juggling probabilities, the authors propose that the human cognitive system has specific tools for dealing with different forms of uncertainty. They identify three types of tools: simple heuristics, tools for information search, and tools for harnessing the wisdom of others. This set of strategies for making predictions, inferences, and decisions constitute the mind's adaptive toolbox. The authors show how these three dimensions of human decision making are integrated and they argue that the toolbox, its cognitive foundation, and the environment are in constant flux and subject to developmental change. They demonstrate that each cognitive tool can be analyzed through the concept of ecological rationality—that is, the fit between specific tools and specific environments. Chapters deal with such specific instances of decision making as food choice architecture, intertemporal choice, financial uncertainty, pedestrian navigation, and adolescent behavior.

Values and Ethics in Social Work Practice

Author : Lester Parrott
Publisher : Learning Matters
ISBN 13 : 1473907217
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Values and Ethics in Social Work Practice written by Lester Parrott and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying values and ethics to social work practice is taught widely across the qualifying degree programme, on both Masters and BA courses. This book is a clear introduction to this subject and will help students develop their understanding by showing social work students how ethics can have positive impacts on the lives of vulnerable people. There are chapters on how social workers can make good ethical and value-based decisions when working with risk, and how the role of the social worker as professional can impact on service users. Above all the book is a timely and clear introduction to the subject, with an emphasis on advocacy and empowerment and how the beginning social worker can start to apply these concepts.

Retire Rich with Your Self-Directed IRA

Author : Nora Peterson
Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1601389566
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Retire Rich with Your Self-Directed IRA written by Nora Peterson and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-10-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-directed IRAs have been around for years, but they’ve been gaining popularity recently among do-it-yourself investors. If this type of investment appeals to you, experts warn that they aren’t for everyone, and there are pitfalls associated with self-directed IRAs that could end up costing you money if you aren’t careful. Recently, many smart investors have exited the stock market because they have lost control of their investments. They have relied on the advice and skill of their brokers, bankers, and financial advisers. Many retirement accounts have dwindled or plateaued. Fortunately, there is a great but little-understood alternative: the self-directed IRA. This book will teach you how to turn your IRA into a wealth-building tool that you have complete control over. This revised edition of Retire Rich With Your Self-Directed IRA will give you the tools you need to take control of your investments. These self-directed IRAs make it effortless for you to build up and keep hold of your IRA money. In this book, you’ll find out how to benefit from the new IRS regulations that impact IRAs and how to stay away from problems. The self-directed IRA lets you act as your own investment manager. Learn how to set up your account with a custodian or IRA administrator to deal with the day-to-day activities, such as depositing contributions and executing and settling investment transactions. It’s easy, fun, and it puts you back in control of your retirement account. The authors combine essentials, insight, and insider secrets to secure a financial victory after retirement.

Managing Risk in Projects

Author : David Hillson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040028128
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Managing Risk in Projects written by David Hillson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Projects are risky undertakings, and risk management is recognised as an integral part of managing the project. Managing Risk in Projects places risk management in its proper context in the world of project management and beyond, emphasising the central concepts essential to understanding why and how risk management matters, and presenting proven practical approaches to addressing risk in any project. The risk management world has changed significantly since the first edition, with advances in risk management practice reflected by changes in international standards and guidelines, as well as significant developments in their implementation. This second edition reflects these changes, and has been completely updated to address progress in the practical application of risk management to projects. Two new chapters have been added, the first discussing how to manage risk in complex projects, and the second considering the role and influence of risk leaders outside the project arena in setting the context and environment for successful risk management. New material also addresses enterprise risk management and risky decision-making. Throughout, the book offers a concise description of current best practice in project risk management whilst introducing the latest developments, to enable project managers, project sponsors and others responsible for managing risk on projects to do just that – effectively.

Investment Theory and Risk Management, + Website

Author : Steven Peterson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118129598
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Investment Theory and Risk Management, + Website written by Steven Peterson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique perspective on applied investment theory and risk management from the Senior Risk Officer of a major pension fund Investment Theory and Risk Management is a practical guide to today's investment environment. The book's sophisticated quantitative methods are examined by an author who uses these methods at the Virginia Retirement System and teaches them at the Virginia Commonwealth University. In addition to showing how investment performance can be evaluated, using Jensen's Alpha, Sharpe's Ratio, and DDM, he delves into four types of optimal portfolios (one that is fully invested, one with targeted returns, another with no short sales, and one with capped investment allocations). In addition, the book provides valuable insights on risk, and topics such as anomalies, factor models, and active portfolio management. Other chapters focus on private equity, structured credit, optimal rebalancing, data problems, and Monte Carlo simulation. Contains investment theory and risk management spreadsheet models based on the author's own real-world experience with stock, bonds, and alternative assets Offers a down-to-earth guide that can be used on a daily basis for making common financial decisions with a new level of quantitative sophistication and rigor Written by the Director of Research and Senior Risk Officer for the Virginia Retirement System and an Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Business Investment Theory and Risk Management empowers both the technical and non-technical reader with the essential knowledge necessary to understand and manage risks in any corporate or economic environment.

Risk and the War on Terror

Author : Louise Amoore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134068360
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Risk and the War on Terror written by Louise Amoore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-11 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1. Risk, precaution, governance -- pt. 2. Crime, deviance, exception -- pt. 3. Biopolitics, biometrics, borders -- pt. 4. Risks, tactics, resistances.

An Age of Risk

Author : Emily C. Nacol
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400883016
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book An Age of Risk written by Emily C. Nacol and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future. Focusing on the epistemological, political, and economic writings of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, and Adam Smith, Nacol explains that in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, political and economic thinkers reimagined the future as a terrain of risk, characterized by probabilistic calculation, prediction, and control. In these early modern sources, Nacol contends, we see three crucial developments in thought on risk and politics. While early modern thinkers differentiated uncertainty about the future from probabilistic calculations of risk, they remained attentive to the ways uncertainty and risk remained in a conceptual tangle, a problem that constrained good decision making. They developed sophisticated theories of trust and credit as crucial background conditions for prudent risk-taking, and offered complex depictions of the relationships and behaviors that would make risk-taking more palatable. They also developed two narratives that persist in subsequent accounts of risk—risk as a threat to security, and risk as an opportunity for profit. Looking at how these narratives are entwined in early modern thought, Nacol locates the origins of our own ambivalence about risk-taking. By the end of the eighteenth century, she argues, a new type of political actor would emerge from this ambivalence, one who approached risk with fear rather than hope. By placing a fresh lens on early modern writing, An Age of Risk demonstrates how new and evolving orientations toward risk influenced approaches to politics and commerce that continue to this day.