Against beck: In defence of risk analysis

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-172

  Campbell, Scott ^a   Currie, Greg ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Humanities Computing   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Beck; Insurance; Probability; Risk analysis; Risk perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646815319     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: 15527441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0048393106287209     Document Type: Article

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