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Powers 210 $aNew York $cColumbia Business School Pub.$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (303 p.) 225 0 $aColumbia Business School Publishing 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-15367-8 311 $a0-231-15366-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Living with risk -- pt. 2. The realm of insurance -- pt. 3. Scientific challenges. 330 $aMuch has been written about the ups and downs of financial markets, from the lure of prosperity to the despair of crises. Yet a more fundamental and pernicious source of uncertainty exists in today's world: the traditional "insurance" risks of earthquakes, storms, terrorist attacks, and other disasters. Insightfully exploring these "acts of God and man," Michael R. Powers guides readers through the methods available for identifying and measuring such risks, financing their consequences, and forecasting their future behavior within the limits of science.A distinctive characteristic of earthquakes, hurricanes, bombings, and other insurance risks is that they impact the values of stocks, bonds, commodities, and other market-based financial products, while remaining largely unaffected by or "aloof" from the behavior of markets. Quantifying such risks given limited data is difficult yet crucial for achieving the financing objectives of insurance. Powers begins with a discussion of how risk impacts our lives, health, and possessions and proceeds to introduce the statistical techniques necessary for analyzing these uncertainties. He then considers the experience of risk from the perspectives of both policyholders and insurance companies, and compares their respective responses.The risks inherent in the private insurance industry lead naturally to a discussion of the government's role as both market regulator and potential "insurer of last resort." Following a thoughtful and balanced analysis of these issues, Powers concludes with an interdisciplinary investigation into the nature of uncertainty, incorporating ideas from physics, philosophy, and game theory to assess science's limitations in predicting the ramifications of risk. 606 $aRisk (Insurance) 606 $aRisk management 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRisk (Insurance) 615 0$aRisk management. 676 $a368 700 $aPowers$b Michael R$0278387 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464484303321 996 $aActs of god and man$92490516 997 $aUNINA LEADER 03717nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910792429903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-49398-1 010 $a9786612493980 010 $a0-7391-3249-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000014091 035 $a(EBL)500924 035 $a(OCoLC)609533509 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000363928 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12137940 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000363928 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10393921 035 $a(PQKB)10666163 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC500924 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL500924 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10386548 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL249398 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000014091 100 $a20100104d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOnline Chinese nationalism and China's bilateral relations$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Simon Shen and Shaun Breslin 210 $aLanham, MD $cRowman & Littlefield$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (311 p.) 225 1 $aChallenges Facing Chinese Political Development 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7391-3247-4 327 $aContents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; PART I. INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. When China Plugged In: Structural Origins of Online Chinese Nationalism; Chapter 2. Nationalism-On-Demand? When Chinese Sovereignty Goes Online; PART II. THE FIRST LAYER: JAPAN, TAIWAN, AND THE UNITED STATES; Chapter 3. China's Online Nationalism Toward Japan; Chapter 4. Networking Anti-Japanese Protests: Popular Sovereignty Reasserted since 2005; Chapter 5. Alternative Online Chinese Nationalism: Response to the Anti-Japanese Campaign in China on Hong Kong's Internet 327 $aChapter 6. Ethnocentric Perception Re-explored: Online Chinese Nationalism Toward TaiwanChapter 7. The "Two Americas" Dichotomy: Online Chinese Nationalism Toward the United States; PART III. THE SECOND LAYER: THE REST OF THE WORLD; Chapter 8. Beyond Sino-ASEAN Relations: Online Chinese Nationalism Toward Southeast Asia; Chapter 9. Online Chinese Nationalism Toward the European Union: Economic and Diplomatic Implications of the Olympic Torch Relay Protests; Chapter 10. 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