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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Against the Gods The Remarkable Story of Risk
Author: Peter L. Bernstein
People constantly make choices, arrive at decisions, and take risks. Savers buy stocks, doctors perform operations, poker players figure the odds, and business managers launch new products. Without the instruments of risk management, such decisions would be impossible, because no one could figure out the likelihood of success. Yet the idea that ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780471121046
ISBN-10: 0471121045
Publication Date: 9/7/1996
Pages: 383
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Publisher: Wiley
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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I read a few chapters - it's curious (and disconcerting) to read about consequential people(mostly mathematicians) that you have never heard of before.


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