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245 | 0 | _aRadical uncertainty | |
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_a _bThe Bridge Street Press, _c2021 |
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300 | _axxxiii, 526 pages ; 22 cm | ||
500 | _adecision-making for an unknowable future | ||
520 | _aUncertainty pervades the big decisions we all make in our lives. How much should we pay into our pensions each month? Should we take regular exercise? Expand the business? Change our strategy? Enter a trade agreement? Take an expensive holiday? We do not know what the future will hold. But we must make decisions anyway. So we crave certainties which cannot exist and invent knowledge we cannot have. But humans are successful because they have adapted to an environment that they understand only imperfectly. Throughout history we have developed a variety of ways of coping with the radical uncertainty that defines our lives. This incisive and eye-opening book draws on biography, history, mathematics, economics, and philosophy to highlight the most successful - and most short-sighted - methods of dealing with an unknowable future | ||
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_aHB Economic Theory. Demography _918 |
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_aBehavioural theory (Behaviourism) _914170 |
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_aEconomic forecasting _zUnited States _914171 |
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_aEconomic history _95315 |
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_aEconomics _92587 |
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_a Educational psychology _914172 |
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_a History of ideas _914173 |
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_a Psychology _922036 |
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_a Social forecasting _914174 |
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_aEconomics _xPsychological aspects _910989 |
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_a Uncertainty _914176 |
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_a Decision making _9339 |
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_aMavering King, John Kay _eAutor _914177 |
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