[Introduction]: Since the introduction of computers in the early 1960s, many organisations have reported a troubled relationship between business and information technology (IT) professionals. Some forty years on, and despite many attempts to resolve the troubled relationship, tensions still...

Cass Sunstein's <italic>Laws of Fear</italic>, published in 2005, is an influential attack on the precautionary principle (PP). Sunstein argues that, applied consistently, the PP leads to incoherent, paralyzing policy outcomes, unlike Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA). According to Sunstein, the apparent appeal of the...