Decision theory: general Books

���� Market Corrections 101: Your Essential Guide to Thriving in Financial Turbulence ����️With markets constantly shifting and corrections looming, every investor needs a strategy to weather the storm. Enter Clara Capital, your trusted guide in the...

���� Master the Art of Investing in a Rising Interest Rate Landscape! ����As the world shifts post-pandemic, the financial landscape is evolving rapidly. With interest rates on the rise, every investor needs to be equipped with the right strategies to...

Ethics and Educational Technology explores the creation and implementation of learning technologies through an applied ethical lens. The success of digital tools and platforms in today's multi-faceted learning and performance contexts is dependent not...

Banks take very large risks by consistently herding in the same perilous directions while believing they are safe and unique. This book presents a risk management framework to understand conformity and deviance within investment banks and other large...

Threats in Context: Identify, Analyze, Anticipate begins with the premise that a risk assessment is relevant primarily-and hinges upon-the correct evaluation of the threat. According to the author, all the other stages of the risk evaluation are, in...

This book provides a guide to navigating the paradoxical tensions of organisational resilience and presents a framework to aid individuals and businesses to become more open-minded, flexible, and mindful in managing the unexpected. The book offers the...

Why do people's financial and economic preferences vary so widely? 'Nurture' variables such as socioeconomic factors partially explain these differences, but scientists have been discovering that 'nature' also plays an important role. This is the first...

Students are drawn to technology like the planets are attracted to the sun's gravitational pull. Schools can utilize this attraction to move from traditional teaching and learning practices to ones that use innovation and technology. This can be done...

This popular book shows students how to increase their power to analyze problems and comprehend what they read using the Think Aloud Pair Problem Solving [TAPPS] method. First it outlines and illustrates the method that good problem solvers use in...

Risk Measures and Insurance Solvency Benchmarks: Fixed-Probability Levels in Renewal Risk Models is written for academics and practitioners who are concerned about potential weaknesses of the Solvency II regulatory system. It is also intended for readers...

Macro-level dynamics and modelling are well represented in the mainstream political risk literature. However, not many writings on the subject get their hands dirty in terms of revealing the hard, nuanced and practical work behind knowing what the issues...

This workbook provides an engaging introduction to algorithms and critical thinking without requiring computer programming. 17 different interactive lessons explain how to draw, create, collaborate, encrypt, diagram, and more... all using algorithms...

A wonderfully irreverent and endlessly entertaining guide--with more than 80,000 copies sold worldwide in multiple languages--about the indicators most investors aren't following, but should be!In order to make the best possible investment decisions,...

The Construction of Truth in Contemporary Media Narratives about Risk provides a theoretical framework for how, in a post-truth era, media audiences are able to understand and navigate everyday risk. The book examines media risk narratives and explores...

Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters tells the story of how Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) revolutionized the investing world and the real economy, but is now showing its age. MPT has no mechanism to understand its impacts on the...

Cyber risk is the second highest perceived business risk according to U.S. risk managers and corporate insurance experts. Digital assets now represent over 85% of an organization's value. In a survey of Fortune 1000 organizations, 83% surveyed described...

In this fifteen lesson workbook, Craig Groeschel shares the principles he has discovered for short-circuiting the bad-decision cycle, making wise decisions, and becoming the person God called us to be.

THE SIZE, SCOPE OF IMPACT, AND GROWING FREQUENCY of M & A transactions, combined with the high failure rate are strong motives for today’s business leaders to gain a better understanding of these transactions.Today’s leaders and corporate...

If you have read other books about trading, you will wish you had read The Intelligent Trader first. This book is genuinely the prequel to every other book about trading.THE INTELLIGENT TRADER is the first book any trader should read when thinking about...

STEP INTO MORE OF WHAT THE LORDHAS FOR YOU WITH THIS GUIDED JOURNALDo you look at your life and wonder, Is this all there is? Wherever you arein life, God has so much more hope, adventure, and purpose for you. Anexciting, life-changing journey awaits as...

This concise guide introduces the importance of executive function for social and emotional well-being, and effective learning. This engaging book offers knowledge and strategies for improving executive function together with an understanding of its...

The Modern History of Risk Today's Risks are Different The Idiosyncrasies of Risk Perception The Management of Risk Defining and Assessing Risk Risk Assessment Tools Mitigating Risk Communication Risk Global Risk in Historical Perspective Managing Global...

This book brings together philosophers to investigate the nature and normativity of group disagreement. Debates in the epistemology of disagreement have mainly been concerned with idealized cases of peer disagreement between individuals. However, most...

This book explores innovations in public management, including establishing a corporate vision, strategizing an organization and change management.Chapters provide a valuable frame of reference for the 21st-century manager of public services by assessing...

This book addresses the questions of discrimination, vulnerable consumers, and financial inclusion in the light of the emerging legal, socioeconomic, and technological challenges. New technologies - such as artificial intelligence-driven...

The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story, however, as between 1830 and 1860, British East India Company...

Herbert William Heinrich has been one of the most influential safety pioneers. His work from the 1930s/1940s affects much of what is done in safety today - for better and worse. Heinrich's work is debated and heavily critiqued by some, while others...

Already dealing with disruptive market forces, the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) faced fundamental challenges resulting from the global health crisis, wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. With catastrophic changes to cultural consumption, cultural...

Introduction A Review of High-Stakes Risk Criteria Finding Alternatives to Risk Risk Avoidance: All or Nothing Precaution in Context A Reassessment of Risk Assessment Can We Avoid Risk Dilemmas? Conclusion

This advanced practical textbook deals with the issue of risk analysis, measurement and management in the shipping industry. It identifies and analyses the sources of risk in the shipping business and explores in detail the "traditional" and "modern"...

This book examines teacher education at a critical turning point in the neoliberal dispensation that has steered education policy and practice since the 1980s. It examines Australia's teacher education reforms, the 'TEMAG reforms' launched in 2014, and...

PART 1 Credit Quality and Risk - Credit Quality and the Maturity Factor - Credit Quality and the Motivation for a Transaction - PART 2 The Risk Adjustment Process - Classification of Risk - Quantifying the Risk Adjustment Process - PART 3 Repurchase and...

The book examines a relatively unexplored issue in supply chain risk management, which is how long companies specifically take to respond to catastrophic events of low probability but high impact. The book also looks at why such supply chain disruptions...

Introduction The Financial Crisis of the 1990s and its Lessons Challenges to Financial Supervision in Coming Years Principles of Good Financial Supervision Corporate Governance and Financial Stability The Rationale for a More Market-based Regime A...

How does a minister respond to a cry for help when the concern is alcohol or drug abuse? With one out of eight adults in the country suffering from alcohol dependency or drug abuse and one out of four families distressed by someone

Educators: "It is time we stand for something, Lest we fall for anything", as past demands on education have exhibited. This book is intended to offer a perspective of where education is; how it got there and to offer a new Portrait of Education. The...

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look at problem solving research and practice over the last fifteen years. The first chapter describes differences in types of problems, individual differences among problem-solvers, as well as the...

First published in 2009. The limited text material available to highlight the relationships among capital structure, managerial incentives and valuation has also constrained teaching efforts at business schools. Long-term Investments is intended to give...

Choice and selection are now cornerstones of education policies wherever these have been shaped by market economics. Now, as never before, schools can face uncertain futures, because their survival is determined by external factors such as admission...

In a world plagued by enormous, complex problems requiring long-range vision and interdisciplinary insights, the need to attend to the influence of dogmatic thinking on the development of high ability and creative intelligence is pressing. This volume...

This book explores the complex, multifaceted and contested subject of risk in the film business. How risk is understood and managed has a substantial impact upon which films are financed, produced and seen. Founded on substantial original research...

Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a channel through which the public sector can seek alternative funding and expertise from the private sector to procure public infrastructure. Governments around the world are increasingly turning to Public-Private...

The systems thinking philosophy has become popular in human factors and ergonomics and safety science. These methods are being used to understand and resolve complex societal problems in areas such as transport safety, workplace safety, medication error,...