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The End of Alchemy & Radical Uncertainty Decision-making for an unknowable future By Mervyn King 2 Books Collection Set
By Mervyn King
The End of Alchemy & Radical Uncertainty Decision-making for an unknowable future By Mervyn King 2 Books Collection Set
By Mervyn King
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The End of Alchemy & Radical Uncertainty Decision-making for an unknowable future By Mervyn King 2 Books Collection Set:
The End of Alchemy:
The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more than a year what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness. Almost overnight, belief turned into incredulity.Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms and not the underlying causes of what went wrong. But those events, vivid though they remain in our memories, comprised only the latest in a long series of financial crises since our present system of commerce became the cornerstone of modern capitalism.
Radical Uncertainty Decision-making for an unknowable future [Hardcover]:
This major, critically acclaimed work asks a vitally important question for today: when uncertainty is all around us, and the facts are not clear, how can we make good decisions? We do not know what the future will hold, particularly in the midst of a crisis, but we must make decisions anyway. We 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. Throughout history we have developed a variety of ways of coping with the radical uncertainty that defines our lives.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Publisher:
- Abacus/The Bridge Street Press
- Languages:
- Published: English
- ISBN10:
- 9123979631
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