Against the gods : the remarkable story of risk /

Against the gods : the remarkable story of risk / Peter L. Bernstein.

"Against the Gods, a narrative that reads like a novel, chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from the oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. This is a richly-woven tale of Greek philosophers a...

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Main Author: Bernstein, Peter L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : John Wiley & Sons, [1996]
Subjects:
Risk management.
Decision making.
Table of Contents:
  • To 1200: beginnings
  • The winds of the Greeks and the role of the dice
  • As easy as 1,2,3
  • 1200-1700: a thousand outstanding facts
  • The Renaissance gambler
  • The French connection
  • The remarkable notions of the remarkable notions man
  • 1700-1900: measurement unlimited
  • Considering the nature of man
  • The search for moral certainty
  • The supreme law of unreason
  • The man with the sprained brain
  • Peapods and perils
  • The fabric of felicity
  • 1900-1960: clouds of vagueness and the demand for precision
  • The measure of our ignorance
  • The radically distinct notion
  • The man who counted everything except calories
  • The strange case of the anonymous stockbroker
  • Degrees of belief: exploring uncertainty
  • The failure of invariance
  • The theory police
  • The fantastic system of side bets
  • Awaiting the wildness.

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