Decision theory: General

Planning and management is increasingly problematic in the real-world environment of spiralling change and uncertainty. Knowledge is incomplete, va...

The Science of Decision Making: A Problem-Based Introduction Using Excel, is a comprehensive, coherent, problems-based approach to learning the sci...

The concept of rationality is a common thread through the human and social sciences - from political science to philosophy, from economics to socio...

'For anyone who wants to make decisions with confidence and clarity, reclaim their mental space, and design a life that truly matters' — Charles Du...

Suppose you're offered an opportunity to experience something that is unlike anything you have ever encountered, but that's all you know--aside fro...

Lara Buchak sets out an original account of the principles that govern rational decision-making in the face of risk. A distinctive feature of these...

Bounded Thinking offers a new account of the virtues of limitation management: intellectual virtues of adapting to the fact that we cannot solve ma...

Do the reasons we have for acting as we do derive from our concerns and desires, or are there objective values in the world that we are rationally ...

This book, based on the author's Clarendon Lectures in Finance, examines the empirical behaviour of corporate default risk. A new and unified stati...

Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing, edited by Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks, and Tiffany Rousculp, represents...

What is a fair distribution of resources and other goods when individuals are partly responsible for their achievements? This book develops a theor...

This book is designed as an introduction to recent social science work on risk and is intended primarily for students in sociology, social psycholo...

Invaluable insights on trading today's futures market The CME Risk Management Handbook provides an accessible overview of the futures market in tod...

These are volatile times. Fear, suspicion, and cynicism are chronic. A mere tweet inflames the passions of millions while click-bait “hot takes” st...

This book is useful for those seeking to learn about the history of market crises and individuals that want to learn about protection against downs...

The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are creating new and unique challenges to corporate security leaders. Internal s...

The technological age has seen a range of catastrophic and preventable failures, often as a result of decisions that did not appropriately consider...

The world is increasingly turbulent and complex, awash with disruptions, tipping points and knock-on effects exemplified by the implosion of financ...

Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, a...

The world is increasingly turbulent and complex, awash with disruptions, tipping points and knock-on effects exemplified by the implosion of financ...

Summer Versus. School II: The Balanced Calendar of School, Work and Life, 2nd Edition explores the successes and challenges of moving from the trad...

Summer Versus. School II: The Balanced Calendar of School, Work and Life, 2nd Edition explores the successes and challenges of moving from the trad...

�A thought-provoking and invaluable book for anyone who cares about risk communication and management in the 21st century� Anna Jung, Director Gene...

Das pädagogische Konzept «projet éducatif» stellt eine Leitidee für katholische Schulen dar, mit der Zielsetzung «Schule als Erziehungsgemeinschaft...

Sound risk management often involves a combination of both mathematical and practical aspects. Taking this into account, Understanding Risk: The Th...

Change in organizations can arise spontaneously, or it can begin in response to a planned process of change. Even planned change is not as predicta...

Engaging Resistance: How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change offers an empirically based explanation that expands our understanding about ...

Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the en...

Straight Choices provides a fascinating introduction to the psychology of decision making, enhanced by discussion of relevant examples of decision ...

Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investmen...

The SAGE Handbook on Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work provides a comprehensive overview of key strands of research and theoretic...

Collective Vision: Igniting District and School Improvement describes a school district’s ten-year journey of transformation and how research was l...

The book analyzes school improvement from the perspective of theory and practice in China.By theoretically exploring definitions, characteristics, ...

Risk management and contingency planning has really come to the fore since the first edition of this book was originally published. Computer failur...