Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

by Mervyn A. King and John Kay

Book Overview

Some uncertainties are resolvable. The insurance industry's actuarial tables and the gambler's roulette wheel both yield to the tools of probability theory. Most situations in life, however, involve a deeper kind of uncertainty, a radical uncertainty for which historical data provides no useful guidance to future outcomes, and for which so-called experts pretend answers. Instead of accepting false certainties, John Kay and Mervyn King advise that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393541983
• ISBN13: 9780393541984
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.6" x 8.2"