The Business of Risk - Couverture souple

Moore, Peter G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 052128497X ISBN 13 : 9780521284974

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This account of risk will be an essential purchase for practising managers, and for students seeking qualification in business and management studies, accounting, banking, insurance and public administration.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Risk pervades virtually all areas of human endeavour, whether these endeavours be for social, personal, commercial or national purposes. It is vitally important for all those involved in decision making in these areas to know how to evaluate the risks involved in any action if choices are to be made meaningfully. In this introduction, Professor Moore begins by summarising the basic concepts that lie behind a formal approach to decision making under conditions of uncertainty. There then follows a discussion of general questions of the determination of probabilities that measure risk, first the theoretical approach then the collective principle allied to the actuarial approach and the controversial subjective or personal approach. A chapter on measuring utility, or worth, leads in to the second part of the book in which more specific questions about handling risk are studied by looking at examples drawn from a number of different fields: commercial, industrial and financial investment decisions, portfolio management, physical risks, medical diagnosis and finally questions of public policy. The book ends with three appendices covering the basic principles for the handling of probabilities, the various decision making procedures that have been advanced and ways in which risk reduction can be achieved. This account of risk will not only be an essential purchase for practising managers, but will also be necessary reading for those students seeking qualification in business and management studies, accounting, banking, insurance and public administration.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 052128497X
• ISBN 13: 9780521284974
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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