Winner, 2003 Kulp-Wright Book Award from the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA) and Awarded the 2001 Paul A. Samuelson Award presented by the TIAA-CREF Institute for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility[...]
An understanding of risk and how to deal with it is an essential part of modern economics. Whether liability litigation for pharmaceutical firms or an individual's having insufficient wealth to retire, risk is something that can be recognized, quantified, analyzed, treated - and incorporated into ou[...]
Our path of economic development has generated a growing list of environmental problems including the disposal of nuclear waste, exhaustion of natural resources, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and polluted land, air, and water. All these environmental problems raise the crucial challenge of d[...]