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050	0	0	_aHD61
100	1		_aBernstein, Peter L.
245	1	0	_aAgainst the gods : _bthe remarkable story of risk / _cPeter L. Bernstein.
260			_aNew York : _bJohn Wiley & Sons, _cc1998.
300			_axi, 383 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 353-364) and indexes.
505	0		_aTo 1200: beginnings -- The winds of the Greeks and the role of the dice -- As easy as I,II, III -- 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.
520			_a"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." —The New York Times
520			_a"An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." —The Wall Street Journal
520			_a"A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it." —Business Week
520			_a"Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read." —The Economist
520			_a"[A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world." —Worth
520			_a"No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement." —Robert Heilbroner author, The Worldly Philosophers
520			_a"With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it." —John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University
650		0	_aRisk management.
650		0	_aDecision making.
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