The recent global economic crisis has revealed that the prevailing risk management systems in the banking and financial sectors are utterly inadequate to protect the public from unacceptable levels of risk. Such "black holes of risk," which expose all of us to catastrophic harm, are increasingly...

Introduction -- The development of modern advertising -- From traditional to industrial society -- Advertising in the transition from industrial to consumer society -- Advertising and the development of twentieth-century communications media -- The development of agencies in the bonding of...