The Ethics of Risk: Ethical Analysis in an Uncertain World

"An excellent contribution" according to Michael Emmett Brady. This is an excellent book.The author carefully and clearly distinguishes between the concept of risk (Boole's determinate probabilities or point estimates ) and uncertainty (Boole's indeterminate ,interval valued probabilities).There are a few minor errors in the book .Adam Smith ,and not Gossens,was the first economist to carefully discuss the difference between risk and uncertainty on pp. 106-11An excellent contribution This is an excellent book.The author carefully and clearly distinguishes between the concept of risk (Boole's determinate probabilities or point estimates ) and uncertainty (Boole's indeterminate ,interval valued probabilities).There are a few minor errors in the book .Adam Smith ,and not Gossens,was the first economist to carefully discuss the difference between risk and uncertainty on pp. 106-113 of chapter 10 of Part I of the Wealth of Nations (1776).The author is also unaware that Keynes derived his conc. of chapter 10 of Part I of the Wealth of Nations (1776).The author is also unaware that Keynes derived his conc

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When is it morally acceptable to expose others to risk? Most moral philosophers have had very little to say in answer to that question, but here is a moral philosopher who puts it at the centre of his investigations.