New York, NY, Estados Unidos : PublicAffairs, c2010.

x, 324 p. : il. ; 25 cm.

Part I: Irrational times. 1. Superstition : a common irrationality? -- 2. Berserk weather forecasters, beauty contests, and delicious apples on Wall Street. -- 3. Subways, coconuts, and foggy minefields : an approach to studying future-choice decisions. -- 4. The more who die, the less we care. -- 5. Haven't you switched to risk management 2.0 yet? : moving toward a new risk architecture. -- Part II: Are we asking the right questions? Economic models and rationality. 6. A two-edged sword : implications of decision psychology for decision analysis. -- 7. Constructed preference and the quest for rationality. -- 8. What if you know you will have to explain your choices to others afterwards? : legitimation in decision making. -- 9. Neuroeconomics : measuring cognition and brain activity during economic decision making. -- 10. The useful brain : how neuroeconomics might change our views on rationality and a couple of other things. -- Part III: Individual decisions in a dangerous and uncertain world. 11. Virgin versus experienced risks. -- 12. How do we manage an uncertain future? : ambiguity today is not ambiguity tomorrow. -- 13. Dreadful possibilities, neglected probabilities. -- 15. Why we still fail to learn from disasters. -- 16. Dumb decisions or as smart as the average politician? : economic and behavioral explanations for insurance demand. -- 17. The hold-up problem : why it is urgent to rethink the economics of disaster insurance protection. -- Part IV: Managing and financing extrem events. 18. The peculiar politics of american disaster policy : how television has changed federal relief. -- 19. Catastrophe insurance and regulatory reform after the subprime mortgage crisis. -- 20. Toward financial stability : lessons from catastrophe reinsurance. -- 21. Economic theory and the financial crisis : how inefficient incentives can lead to catastrophes. -- Environmental politics : are you a conservative? -- 23. Act now, later, or never? : the challenges of managing long-term risks / -- 24. Climate change : insuring risk and changes in risk. -- International social protection in the face of climate change : developing insurance for the poor. -- Part V. What difference can we make? 26. Are we making a difference? -- Thinking clearly about policy decision: the importance of training policy makers in decision sciences. -- 28. Decision making : a view on tomorrow. -- 29. Influential social science, risks, and disasters : a view from the national science foundation. -- 30. Reflections and guiding principles for dealing with societal.

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