Against the gods bernstein audiobook

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Publication date 1996 topics risk management, decision making. How the prosperity of the modern world was created unabridged audiobook, by william bernstein. Together with his highly successful predecessor, capital ideas the improbable origins of modern wall street the free press, new york, 1992, bernstein has laid out a remarkably insightful. The book tells the story of how, in the 16th and 17th centuries, an increasingly scientific and sophisticated understanding of probabilities allowed for the development of insurance markets for trade and personal security, and how these had a revolutionary impact on the development of the global economy. Worthno one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement. Against the gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it. If two participants quit a game of chance before finishing, how is the pot divided. The book provides an outline of all the key players and their contribution to risk theory and management.