"Featuring real world examples of how risk information affects public choices, The Economics of Environmental Risk … by officials providing information on risk and designing policies for managing them. Further consideration is also given … public policy, risk analysis and environmental and resource economics will value the useful examples found in this …

-edge Handbook presents a timely analysis of the conditions that reduce or exacerbate disaster impacts. Addressing developments in … research on disaster economics, internationally recognized scholars explore the role of both the private and public sectors in … disasters on economic activity, including the behavioral consequences, biases and heuristics, and risk preferences. Delving …

This book presents an up-to-date overview of the theory as well as the empirics of the relationship between investment … investment theory, professionals in the financial sector and students of macroeconomics and finance. Investment, Capital Market …

adding to the existing thought in this area, with insights from game theory, rational choice under uncertainty and new … exposition of the risk/return trade-off and how major capital investment decisions are made within firms. Topics studied include …

neoclassical theory to deal with uncertainty and risk aversion is based upon a string of assumptions which are empirically false …In Finance, Investment and Macroeconomics, Myron J. Gordon advances a theory of finance and investment under … uncertainty and risk aversion which resolves problems left unsolved by Keynes in a manner consistent with his work. Keynes …

differing views regarding the role of economic theory as applied to the real world. William Greer reveals that the intellectual …

One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …