This book is a product of applying info-gap decision theory to policy formulation and evaluation in monetary economics and related domains. Info-gap theory has been applied to planning and decision problems in many areas, including engineering, biological conservation, project management, economics, medicine, homeland security, and more.

YAKOV BEN-HAIM holds the Yitzhak Moda'i Chair in Technology and Economics at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He initiated and developed info-gap decision theory for modelling and managing severe uncertainty. Info-gap theory is applied in engineering, biological conservation, economics, project management, homeland security, medicine and other areas. He is the author of five books and numerous articles.