...This chapter examines how sinful images of animality that appear in hagiographies of mystics become focal points for anxiety about moral uncertainty and the pious subject's uncanny otherness to itself. Critics of hagiographies frequently complained of the murkiness of moral standards, the blurring...

...This chapter returns to the lessons of the eighteenth century in discussing risk, in particular exploring the role of liberalism in early modern Britain's preoccupation with risk. Preoccupation with uncertainty, a view of risk as hazard, and profound feelings of insecurity marked eighteenth-century...

..., political ill will, and uncertainty. bail out bond credit debt democracy European Central Bank ECB lender of last resort policy programme Portugal restructuring structural reforms technocracy troika Dublin European Financial Stability Facility EFSF firewall fiscal stimulus Germany Italy...

...Figure 1.1 The Ponzo Illusion: How Perspective Can Bias Vision Source: Walt Anthony, 2006, used with permission. The Ponzo Illusion: http://opticalillusions4kids.blogspot.nl . Figure 1.2 Perceived Uncertainty in the Payoff of Acquisitions (Inner Distribution) Is Lower...

...This chapter shows how the probability distribution for economic growth is subject to some parametric uncertainty. There is a limited data set for the dynamics of economic growth, and the absence of a sufficiently large data set to estimate the long-term growth process of the economy implies...

...This chapter discusses the uncertainties surrounding the trade among country merchants, manufacturers, and wholesalers. Often separated by distances of hundreds of miles, their exchange relationships had little recourse to the social devices used to manage uncertainty within Southern communities...

...This introductory chapter presents a study of book reviewing from the perspective of the reviewers. It examines two major dimensions of this research—the study of critics and evaluation as a response to quality uncertainty. The chapter explores the ways in which critics impact book culture...

... explores the procedures critics employ to determine the quality of books, including consideration of the different criteria used when they evaluate books. Individually, there is radical quality uncertainty inherent in reviewing books, and critics' specific readings will appear to have a limited value...

...This chapter illustrates how the different types of uncertainty structure how fiction reviewers operate. Common to the preceding chapters is the finding that when confronted with different types of uncertainty, reviewers devise “personalized” responses. To be clear, while critics experience...

...This chapter assesses predictor feedback for uncertainty-free systems. The previous chapters investigated predictor control problems of uncertain single-input or multi-input LTI systems with discrete input delays. This chapter extends the predictor method to compensate for another big family...

...This chapter develops decision-theoretic principles for reasonable care under uncertainty. It discusses some reasonable ways to choose among undominated actions. When addressing this issue, decision theorists have distinguished three primary situations regarding information that a decision maker...

...This chapter examines John Maynard Keynes' views on knowledge, expectations, and rationality. It focuses not only on Keynes' ideas on expectation formation but also on the degree of confidence attached to those expectations (i.e., uncertainty) and what this means for macroeconomic theory. After...

... Market demand uncertainty and Uncertainty Marshallian demand Consumption bundles Prices Insurance Actuarial fairness demand for insurance and Actuarial unfairness demand for insurance and Financial assets demand for and uncertainty Riskless assets demand for Risky assets Short selling demand...

..., pointing out both strengths and weaknesses. The book begins with an exposition of the standard models of choice and the market, with extra attention paid to choice under uncertainty and dynamic choice. General and partial equilibrium approaches are blended, so that the student sees these approaches...

... thinkers differentiated uncertainty about the future from probabilistic calculations of risk, they remained attentive to the ways uncertainty and risk remained in a conceptual tangle, a problem that constrained good decision making. They developed sophisticated theories of trust and credit as crucial...

...This chapter assesses whether the class structure of the South changed in the postbellum era and whether different individual and locational attributes predicted who would come to occupy preferred social positions. It suggests another source of categorical uncertainty during Reconstruction...

...This chapter considers the prospect of uncertainty in planning for the future. In fact, it is commonly accepted that individuals are ready to sacrifice more in the present for the future when this future becomes more uncertain. Keynes was the first to mention this idea by pointing out...

...This chapter aims to provide a unified theoretical foundation to the term structure of discount rates. To do this the chapter develops a benchmark model based on two assumptions: individual preferences toward risk, and the nature of the uncertainty over economic growth. Previously, it was shown...

... mechanics. At first glance, quantum mechanics does not seem that strange—its name is based on the fact that light comes in units and that electrons have discrete energy states. It also includes the uncertainty principle, which states that one cannot know certain pairs of physical properties with perfect...

... is of a piece both with his ecumenism and with his moral and political views. The Cartesian who rejects phenomena as false simply because they can be doubted lacks the courage to face conflicts that may arise within any aspect of human experience. Instead, Leibniz refused to be daunted by uncertainty...