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Exchange Rates
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Niklas Luhmann
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Product details
- ISBN 9780202307640
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk, now available in paperback, Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected, unlikely, and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker.
Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) was professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Bielefeld. He authored several books, including Archimedes und wir: Interviews, Politische Planung, Love as Passion, Political Theory in the Welfare State, and Essays on Self-Reference. Rhodes Barrett is a coauthor of Ringing the Changes in Europe: Regulatory Competition and the Transformation of the State - Britain, France, Germany and the translator of The Structure of Government and Administration in Germany.
