CHAPTER 5

Uncertainty

Risk Tolerance and Expected Utility

There is nothing more profitable for a [person] than to take good ­counsel with [oneself]; for even if the event turns out contrary to one’s hopes, still one’s decision was right.

–Herodotus

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