Monetary Economics and Sequential Trade is an insightful introduction to the advanced topics in monetary economics. Accessible to students who have mastered the diagrammatic tools of economics, it discusses real issues with a variety of modeling alternatives, allowing for a direct comparison of...

This book presents a framework, the Urban Risk Assessment, for assessing disaster and climate risk in cities which is intended to assist in decision-making, urban planning, and designing risk management programs. The approach seeks to strengthen coherence and consensus within and across cities...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: RISKS FROM NATURE -- 1 Fire Is Everybody's Problem -- 2 The Uncertainties of Disease -- 3 Doing Something about the Weather -- 4 Animal Risk for a Modern Age -- PART II: INDUSTRIALIZING RISK -- 5 Railroads, or Why Risk in a System...

Notes that teamwork has long been hailed as the key to operational success but the ceaseless changes in the workplace, triggered in part by the new technologies, are raising questions about the current validity of some of the claims. Teamwork per se is the essence of collective effort but the...