Conversations with Ulrich Beck
Introduction: Thinking Society Anew (John Urry). 1. Post modernity or the second modernity. 2. Individualisation. 3. Global risk society. 4. Labour society and regime of risk. 5. Cosmopolitan society…
: Printing Presses: History and Development from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times
- M. Pollak
- Art
- 1 April 1974
Following your need to always fulfil the inspiration to obtain everybody is now simple. Connecting to the internet is one of the short cuts to do. There are so many sources that offer and connect us…
The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany
- K. Shrader-Frechette, D. Nelkin, M. Pollak
- Political Science
- 6 November 1980
"Pennsylvania is everywhere!"This was the rallying cry throughout Europe in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island accident. Certainly the fears of anti-nuclear activists for their safety and for the…
Political Parties and the Nuclear Energy Debate in France and Germany
In the early 1970s, European countries planned dramatic increases in their nuclear energy capacity. A 1972 projection reported that by 1985 the total installed nuclear power in the European Economic…
AIDS: a problem for sociological research
- M. Pollak, G. Paicheler, J. Pierret
- Medicine
- 1992
This book discusses attitudes, Beliefs and Opinions, and the Fight Against AIDS in Everyday Life and Understanding Sexual Behaviour and Its Change.
Organizing the Fight Against Aids
- M. Pollak
- Education
- 1 December 1992
Partially Overlapping Ownership and Contagion in Financial Networks
- M. Pollak, Yuanying Guan
- EconomicsComplex
- 6 November 2017
The results show that trends in capital buffers and the distribution and type of assets have a significant effect on the predictions of financial network contagion models and that the rising trend in ownership of banks by banks amplifies shocks to the financial system.
Contagion in Heterogeneous Financial Networks
- Yuanying Guan, M. Pollak
- EconomicsAdvances in Complex Systems
- 27 June 2016
It is found that when banks redistribute assets following an initial mild contagion it increases the stability, on average, of the system to subsequent shocks originating at weakened banks.
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