Based on data on publicly traded insurance firms, the first essay examines questions about the effect of large catastrophic events on insurance firms. Rather th

The essays in this volume explain the key structural features of financial inflation that give rise to financial crisis. These features include excessive relian

This collection highlights a key metaphor in contemporary discourse about economy and society. The contributors explore how references to reality and the real e

This book is an introduction to the mathematical analysis of probability theory and provides some understanding of how probability is used to model random pheno