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Against the Gods

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1996
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Peter L. Bernstein’s Against the Gods relates the timeline and the role of risk taking in shaping most facets of human existence. By presenting the material in an engaging narrative, Bernstein looks at human and societal responses to risk across history and using the modern age. The book shows what the strategies that defined our world and the experiences, including the failures and successes, of risky ventures makes it an interesting book on risk and resilience.

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Peter L. Bernstein

Against the Gods traces how humanity moved from treating the future as fate to treating it as risk, which required probability, and probability required somebody to think seriously about dice.

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Book facts

First published
1996
Reading time
About 9 hours
Pages
435
Language
English
Genre
Finance
Formats
PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online