TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernstein,Peter L.
TI  - Against the gods: the remarkable story of risk 
SN  - 9780471121046
AV  - HD61 .B466 1996
U1  - 368 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New York
PB  - John Wiley & Sons
KW  - Risk management
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Risk Management
KW  - Decision Making
KW  - History
KW  - Risk
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Gestion du risque
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Prise de décision
KW  - fast
KW  - gtt
KW  - Besluitvorming
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - gnd
KW  - Risiko
KW  - Risikomanagement
KW  - Wirtschaft
KW  - Sociologia
KW  - larpcal
KW  - ram
KW  - rasuqam
KW  - Gestion des risques
KW  - swd
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-364) and indexes; To 1200: beginnings -- The winds of the Greeks and the role of the dice -- As easy as 1,2,3 -- 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
N2  - "Against the Gods, a narrative that reads like a novel, chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from the oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. This is a richly-woven tale of Greek philosophers and Arab mathematicians, of merchants and scientists, gamblers and philosophers, world-renowned intellects and obscure but inspired amateurs who helped discover the modern methods of putting the future at the service of the present, replacing helplessness before the fates with choice and decision."--Jacket
ER  -