TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mavering King, John Kay
TI  - Radical uncertainty
SN  - 9780349143996
PY  - 2021///
CY  - 
PB  - The Bridge Street Press
KW  - HB Economic Theory. Demography
KW  - Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)
KW  - Economic forecasting
KW  - United States
KW  -  Economic history
KW  - Economics
KW  -  Educational psychology
KW  -  History of ideas
KW  -  Psychology
KW  -  Social forecasting
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  -  Uncertainty
KW  -  Decision making
N1  - decision-making for an unknowable future
N2  - 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
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