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Black Holes of Risk: Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector

Black Holes of Risk: Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector. William Leiss, O.C., Ph.D., FRSC Haskayne School of Business MGST 797.89 September 24, 2009. William Leiss - Profile. http://www.leiss.ca wleiss@uottawa.ca Author/collaborator for 15 books and many essays and reports

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Black Holes of Risk: Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector

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  1. Black Holes of Risk:Systemic Risk in the Financial Sector William Leiss, O.C., Ph.D., FRSC Haskayne School of Business MGST 797.89 September 24, 2009 Leiss 2009

  2. William Leiss - Profile • http://www.leiss.ca • wleiss@uottawa.ca • Author/collaborator for 15 books and many essays and reports • Working in the field of risk management & risk communication for over 20 years • Past-president, Royal Society of Canada Leiss 2009

  3. In 1994 I published Risk and Responsibility, with lengthy case studies in pesticides, Alar and apples and EMF (electric and magnetic fields) risk Books on Risk Issues (1) Leiss 2009

  4. William Leiss & Douglas Powell and, Mad Cows and Mother’s Milk: The Perils of Poor Risk Communication (1997) mad cow disease in the UK, dioxins, “hamburger disease” (E. coli), silicon breast implants, bovine growth hormone, genetically-engineering food crops and PCBs Second, enlarged edition December 2004: BSE in North America, Canada and the Kyoto Protocol, genomics risks Books on Risk Issues (2) Leiss 2009

  5. Books on Risk Issues (3) • Professional risk managers in governments and industry often completely misunderstand the nature of the reactions of the public to risks. Then the chamber of risks can turn into a chamber of horrors for business and governments (published 2001) Leiss 2009

  6. A Work of Utopian Fiction Book Two of The Herasaga Like priests, scientists are liable to be misled by the purity of their motives into downplaying the risks inherent in their creations. “It is, of course, quite correct for you to allot the relevant priesthood to Niels Bohr.” (Albert Einstein to Max Born, 7 September 1944) Book One is Hera, or Empathy Both from University of Ottawa Press or Amazon Future Risks Leiss 2009

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