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Risk : a study of its origins, history and politics /
Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology. However, few scholarly works have given a chronological account of cultural...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Jersey :
World Scientific,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Risk : |b a study of its origins, history and politics / |c Matthias Beck (Queen's University, UK) and Beth Kewell (The University of Stavanger, Norway). |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Preface; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Moral Reach and Ontological Insecurity; Homo Economics and Homo Ludens; About this Book; Chapter One Homo Ludens, Aleatorics and the Birth of Probability; From the Beginning; Cardano's Provenance: A Focus on Risk; Heroes of Aleatory Arithmetic; Play and Politics; Conclusion; Chapter Two Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Fictions of Risk; Mapping the Ground; Post-Enlightenment Disasters and the Origins of Pessimism; Historical Disasters and the Fear of the Present. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Dangers of Urban Life and Societal Dimensions of DisasterXenophobic Visions and the 'Political' Disaster Novel; War in the West; Wars with Asians; Conclusion; Chapter Three 'Pseudo-Sciences' of Risk; Setting the Scene; Dangerous Crowds and Technologies; Racial Hierarchies and Racial Threats; Endangered 'Rulers'; From Local Threat to Global Race War; Conclusion; Chapter Four Decision Analysis and the Social Control of Technology; Transitions to 'Modernity'; The Rise and Fall of Technological Decision Analysis; The Beginnings of Modern Safety Science; Safety Expertise as Ideology. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Signs of DecayThe Environmentalist Critique; Heuristic Limitations and Environmentalist Dissent; Conclusion; Chapter Five International Crises and Precarious Global Systems; Predecessors: Retrospective Decision Analysis; Crises and Diplomatic History; Arms Races and Defence Expenditure; Alliances and Wars; Economic Crises; Pax Americana and Prospective Decision Analysis; Systems Theory and Global Risk Management; Systems Thinking; Global Modelling; Conclusion; Chapter Six Macrosociological Dualities of Risk: Structural Inequality and Risk Society; Structural Inequality; Dependency Theory. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Risk SocietyConclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Authors. | |
| 520 | |a Over a period of several centuries, the academic study of risk has evolved as a distinct body of thought, which continues to influence conceptual developments in fields such as economics, management, politics and sociology. However, few scholarly works have given a chronological account of cultural and intellectual trends relating to the understanding and analysis of risks. Risk: A Study of its Origins, History and Politics aims to fill this gap by providing a detailed study of key turning points in the evolution of society's understanding of risk. Using a wide range of primary and secondary m. | ||
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