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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An elegant and careful guide to thinking about personal and social economics, especially in a time of uncertainty. The timing is impeccable'New York Times Book ReviewThis major, timely and critically acclaimed work asks a vitally important question: when uncertainty is all around us, and the facts are not clear, how can we make good decisions In the wake of a global pandemic and a financial crisis before that, is it clearer than ever that we don't know what the future will hold. But because we must make decisions anyway our response is to regularly crave certainties which cannot exist and invent knowledge we cannot have, forgetting that humans are successful because we have adapted to an environment that we understand only imperfectly. This remarkable book draws on history, mathematics, economics and philosophy to highlight the most successful - and most short-sighted - methods of dealing with an unknowable future. Ultimately, as we have seen to our cost, the prevalent method of our age falls short, giving us a false understanding of our power to make predictions, leading to many of the problems we experience today. Radical Uncertainty shows how we can change that for the better.'Rarely is a book's publication as well-timed as John Kay and Mervyn King's Radical Uncertainty' Wall Street Journal'Entertaining and enlightening . . . This is a necessary critique and they make it with verve, knowledge and a wealth of stories' Financial Times 'An elegant, wise and timely book' Irish Times'Jam-packed with erudition' New Statesman.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Who knows what tomorrow will bring Or next week, next month or next year Nobody can see into the future but we make our choices on the basis of what fortunes we think will befall us. 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 next summer These are universal questions. 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 in biography, history, maths, economics and philosophy to highlight the most successful - and most short-sighted - methods. Ultimately, the authors argue, the method of our age is misleading us, and giving us a false understanding of our power to make predictions, leading to many of the problems we experience today.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Radical Uncertainty | Decision-making for an unknowable future | Mervyn King (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | XXXIII | Englisch | 2021 | Little, Brown Book Group | EAN 9780349143996 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, 22083 Hamburg, gpsr[at]petersen-buchimport[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Who knows what tomorrow will bring Or next week, next month or next year Nobody can see into the future but we make our choices on the basis of what fortunes we think will befall us. 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 next summer These are universal questions. 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 in biography, history, maths, economics and philosophy to highlight the most successful - and most short-sighted - methods. Ultimately, the authors argue, the method of our age is misleading us, and giving us a false understanding of our power to make predictions, leading to many of the problems we experience today. Englisch.…