This book offers an account of the physical, financial and managerial measures used throughout London to reduce the risk of terrorist attack. It discusses the changing nature of the terrorist threat against global cities in terms of tactics and targeting, examines how terrorism …
The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives was only a few million dollars. By 1980 the sum had swollen to nearly one hundred millio…
Cultural studies exploration of the implications of the circulation of increasingly abstract forms of capital in the contemporary global economy.
The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives was only a few million dollars. By 1980 the sum had swollen to nearly one hundred millio…
Models for quantifying risk
by London, Richard L., Cunningham, Robin J., Herzog, Thomas N.
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"Risk management has become virtually as important as portfolio construction and asset selection, more so after the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Those who understood the fine art of risk management survived the wreckage of the markets; those who depended entirely on risk model…
Threats to human security do not necessarily take cataclysmic forms such as war or natural disaster, nor does human insecurity exist solely within a suspended living environment like refugee camps. This publication explores less obvious threats to human security and how people a…
