Sentences with phrase «rational risk»

Proper, rational risk analysis requires learning about the likelihood and magnitude of potential harm, as well as the cost and burden of both possible security measures, but also the alternative options.

This is why rational risk averse investors care very much about the variance of their portfolios.

Taking undue risk in one area and avoiding rational risk in others.

But of course these reviews of climate science butt up against a similarly robust body of psychological and sociological work showing how hard it is for information, even reliable authoritative information, to break through the barriers within the human mind (not to mention our polarized politics) that can impede rational risk management.

Over time (hopefully), you'll find a comfortable balance between rational risks and real life.

So on sea level rise, I'd recommend rational risk analysis to Mr. Romm, because we have nothing to fear but fear itself.

«the most successful political movement of the past few decades, environmentalism, has relied so heavily on apocalypse: on the suspension of rational risk assessments, and the stimulation of wild, runaway fantasies.

So to the extent that you have a rational economic model and rational risk - reward embedded in contractual agreements and the rest of that kind of stuff, there's no reason ever to walk away from a customer.

In a rational risk - weighting, the outcomes with greater cost dominate the total risk, increasingly as their likelihood is less well - constrained.

In that case, a rational risk averse person willingly takes on a bet with negative expected value.

But instead of being terrified by climate change (to use his word), let's try some rational risk analysis.

Take a rational risk.

Though demographics are shifting and there is a significant amount of competition, most of the players in multifamily real estate appear to be making calculated, rational risks.