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:::(i) Don’t cleave to the organisational structure much less the firm’s own division of responsibility for risk management, which is based on stables from which horses have already bolted<br>
:::(i) Don’t cleave to the organisational structure much less the firm’s own division of responsibility for risk management, which is based on stables from which horses have already bolted<br>
:::(ii) Therefore susceptible to present in different areas of risk management – the same risk might be partly legal, partly credit, partly market risk. Each in isolation may be containable, but combined effect less so<br>
:::(ii) Therefore susceptible to present in different areas of risk management – the same risk might be partly legal, partly credit, partly market risk. Each in isolation may be containable, but combined effect less so<br>
===The firm as a a bulwark against the vicissitudes of the market===
*{{risk|Firm}}
:::(i) Humans devote much of their energy in mitigating the conditions of the free market. <br>
 
::::(1) This is our evolutionary advantage. We are social, hierarchical, political animals. <br>
::::(2) We self-organise into anti-competitive associations – call them cartels - of all kinds:<br>
:::::(a) Families <br>
:::::(b) Clubs <br>
:::::(c) Firms <br>
:::::(d) Parties <br>
:::::(e) Governments <br>
:::(ii) These cartels are not run on laissez faire lines. That would defeat their very purpose. They are intended to mitigate against the horrors of the [[Hobbes]]ian world.<br>
:::(iii) That is to say, the exact point of human organisation at any level is to undermine market equality, not to promote it.<br>
:::(iv) At the highest level there is a free market, but it operates between firms<br>
:(b) As with any dynamic system it survives and thrives courtesy of tensions. here the tensions are between:<br>
:::(i) Government (cartel) and market (nature) <br>
:::(ii) market (nature) and Firm (cartel) <br>
:::(iii) firm (cartel) and Individual (nature)<br>
:(c) Somewhere within these tensions – in the breakdown between [[nomological machine]]s, we find the phenomenon – maybe phenomena – of nonsense jobs. <br>
==={{risk|Government}}===
==={{risk|Government}}===
===Form over substance===
===Form over substance===

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