Radical uncertainty
Kay, J. A. (John Anderson)2020
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Uncertainty 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.
Main title:
Radical uncertainty / John Kay, Mervyn King.
Author:
Kay, J. A. (John Anderson), authorKing, Mervyn A., author
Imprint:
London : The Bridge Street Press, 2020.
Collation:
xvi, 528 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9781408712603 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
330.019
Language:
English
BRN:
87707
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