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Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty
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Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty

by Mark Machina, W. Kip Viscusi
November 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
896 pages
35h 10m
English
North Holland
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Preface 2
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accurately described the world of our everyday experience. More than one century ago,
they started describing real-world phenomena that few of us can even contemplate, such
as subatomic particles, relativity, and quantum mechanics, often at the submicroscopic or
cosmic level. No doubt the empirical revolution in economics—the rush of the field to
observe and explain in great detail happenings in the marketplace—helped to promote
the delayed venture of the economics field into the realm of uncertainty.
This handbook documents the arrival, admittedly belated, of social-science under-
standing of this realm. Virtually all bases are co ...
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ISBN: 9780444536853