Uncertainty: Individual Problems and Public Solutions

Cover
Uncertainty
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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. How Much Can We Know?
Decision-​Making Under Uncertainty, Risk, and Ambiguity
Attempts to Turn Uncertainty into Risk
Knowledge as a Remedy for Uncertainty
The Hermeneutics of Knowledge
Private Ways of Reducing Uncertainty
Public Ways of Reducing Uncertainty
Outline
PART IPrinciples of States of the World
	2. Informal Institutions
		Informal and Formal Institutions
		From Struggle to Informal Institutions
		The Lifeworld of Informal Institutions
		Institutionalization
		How Informal Institutions Show Up
		How Do Institutions Reduce Uncertainty?
		Conclusion
	3. Formal Institutions
		Decisions for Others in Public
		Setting Laws
		Standards
		Conclusion
	4. Evaluation
		Evaluations and Their Prevalence
		Evaluation Against Objective Scales
		Evaluation as a Discourse—​Towards Decisions for Others
		Conclusion
PART II: Forms Producing States of the World5. Convaluation
	5. Convaluation
		Convaluations as Forms
		Value Uncertainty
		Mutual Adjustment
		Grown and Decided Forms of Convaluations
		Producer Markets as Grown Economic Convaluations
		Convaluations as Result of Decisions—​Organization
		Elections as Decided Convaluations
		Exchange Markets as Decided Convaluations
		Conclusion
	6. Deciding for Others
		Valuation Arising from Decisions for Others
		Valuation as an Evaluation Discourse
		Reviews
		Ratings
		Prizes as Indirect Competition
		Rankings
		Predictions
		Conclusion
	7. Contest
		Concepts of Contest
		From Violence to Peaceful Contests
		Indirect Contests and Competition
		The Culture of Contest
		The Making of Forms of Contest
		Conclusion
	8. Making and Reducing Uncertainty
		The Making of Means of Uncertainty Reduction
		Addressing Uncertainty
		The Opportunity of Uncertainty
		Existential Uncertainty Reduction
		Private Truth Claims and the Public
Appendix. A Typology of Convaluations
Notes
References
Index