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Shleifer, Andrei

Shu Zukang

Sichuan province, earthquake in

Sierra Club

Silent Spring (Carson)

Simon, Herbert

Skillful weighing

Slovic, Paul

Small Business Administration (SBA)

Smart Choices (Keeney and Hammond)

Smith, Adam

Smith, Vernon

Social sciences

Social Security

Social welfare

Socrates

Spetzler, Carl

Stage 1 risks

Stage 2 risks

Stern, Nicholas

Stern Review

Stock markets

Storms

Strategic Decisions Group

Strömberg, David

Stroop tasks

Subprime mortgage crisis

“Subway” uncertainty

Sunstein, Cass

Superfund

Superstition

Supplemental Security Income

Supply-shock story

“Sure Thing Principle” (Savage)

Sustainability

Terrorism

governmental response to

mega-

preventing

Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA)

Thaler, Richard

Theory of Games. See also Game Theory; Ultimatum Game

Thompson, Michael

Thucydides

Timing

Toll collectors, algorithm for assigning

Tradeoffs

certainty and

value

Trope, Yaacov

Tropical Storm Agnes

Tsunamis

Tunguska, asteroid explosion at

Tversky, Amos

Ultimatum Game (UG)

(fig.). See also Game Theory;

Theory of Games

Uncertainty(fig.)

assessing

behavior and

coconut

general equilibrium under

growth of

handling

insurance and

market

subway

types of

Underinsurance

Unfair offers(fig.)

Union Carbide plant

United Nations

World Economic and Social Survey 2008

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

U.S. Bureau of the Census

U.S. Geological Service

Updating

Bayesian

Utility

assessing

discounted

expected

function

theory

Value and Capital (Hicks)

Values

articulating/understanding

Victims

moral intuition and

statistical

Virgin risks

Viscusi, Kip

Vouchers

Walraséon

Warranties

Wharton School

White, Gilbert

Willingness to pay (WTP) (table)

Wishful thinking

World Bank

World Food Programme

World Is Flat, The (Friedman)

World Trade Center (WTC)

Zeckhauser, Richard

Zionts, David

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