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The Limits and Dangers of Risk-Benefit Analysis: From the Refugee Crisis to the Coronavirus Pandemic
In this chapter, Kelly Oliver argues that while risk-benefit analysis may be necessary in a crisis situation such as the Covid-19 pandemic, that does...
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AI-Related Risk: An Epistemological Approach
Risks connected with AI systems have become a recurrent topic in public and academic debates, and the European proposal for the AI Act explicitly...
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Risk and Resilience
Paul Ricoeur and Bertrand Russell praise the creative energy and risk-taking spirit of the modern world. Yet they, too, are unable to rescue the...
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Risk Assessment
Risk is the prospect of an unfavorable development in chancy circumstances and exists whenever there the possibility that things might not go well....
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AI Risk Skepticism
In this work, we survey skepticism regarding AI risk and show parallels with other types of scientific skepticism. We start by classifying different...
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Social Integrity and Stock Price Crash Risk
We examine whether the level of integrity in a society, i.e., social integrity, affects stock price crash risk. We explore two competing hypotheses....
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Riscophrenia: The Risk Fallacy and the Repression of Uncertainty
Contemporary society has elevated the concept of risk to the status of dogma. That this concept may be converted to a mathematical-probabilistic...
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Sustainability Practice in a World at Risk
This chapter ventures into the question of what sustainable action looks like in practice. With the empirical case of an eco-tourism adventure guide...
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Reverse-Engineering Risk
Three philosophical accounts of risk dominate the contemporary literature. On the probabilistic account, risk has to do with the probability of a...
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The Social Aspect of Risk
When someone is at risk, who bears the responsibility for addressing the problem? Of course the risk-bearer himself stands in the foreground here....
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How Gender Diversity Shapes Cities: Evidence from Risk Management Decisions in REITs
In this paper, we study the impact of CEO and board gender diversity on the risk management decisions of 179 U.S. Real Estate Investment Trusts...
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Holistic thinking and risk-taking perceptions reduce risk-taking intentions: ethical, financial, and health/safety risks across genders and cultures
Holistic thinking involves four subconstructs: causality, contradiction, attention to the whole, and change. This holistic perspective varies across...
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Objectivity, value-free science, and inductive risk
In this paper I shall defend the idea that there is an abstract and general core meaning of objectivity, and what is seen as a variety of concepts or...
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Are Companies Offloading Risk onto Employees in Times of Uncertainty? Insights from Corporate Pension Plans
We investigate how firms adjust corporate pension plans in response to economic policy uncertainty (EPU). Using a sample of US-listed firms, we find...
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Political Corruption and Corporate Risk-Taking
We use variation in corruption convictions across judicial districts in the US to examine the relationship between political corruption and...
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Ethics of early detection of disease risk factors: A sco** review
BackgroundScientific and technological advancements in map** and understanding the interrelated pathways through which biological and environmental...
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Ethical Issues in the Use of Risk Assessment
The rise in terrorist acts around the world has called for greater attention for health care professionals to predict and report those who may commit...
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An objection to the modal account of risk
In a recent paper in this journal Duncan Pritchard responds to an objection to the modal account of risk pressed by Ebert, Smith and Durbach (
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Decision Theory and De Minimis Risk
A de minimis risk is defined as a risk that is so small that it may be legitimately ignored when making a decision. While ignoring small risks is...