|  | Author: Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher: Wiley
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Sales Rank: 2986
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0471295639
Dewey Decimal Number: 368
UPC: 723812295630
EAN: 9780471295631
ASIN: 0471295639
Publication Date: August 31, 1998
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 Great Book on Risk November 6, 2007
K. Scott Proctor (Wilmington, DE USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Risk is a topic central to many facets of everyday life. Peter Bernstein offers a compelling and readable historical overview of the evolving role of risk in everyday life combined with thoughts on the future of risk in our changing world.
Well-documented and interesting, this is a key book for those who are interested in contextualizing risk. After reading this book, you may well see risk in a new and different way.
 Well researched , but a bit dry October 15, 2007
Coach K (NY,NY)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a statistics and economics teacher, I naturally jumped at this book. But while I found some parts to be interesting, I didn't love it. All too often, I found it a bit boring -- not nearly a page turner, like When Genius Failed, Fortune's Formula, Fermat's Enigma, or many other books that Amazon puts on the boat. It read to me more like a history textbook on a niche subject -- not really what I was hoping for.
I did learn a lot from reading it, but I found that I could only read one short chapter at a time before nodding off.
Against The Gods, a highly recommended book for MBA September 18, 2007
Ricardo Sanz Veiga (Sao Paulo - Brazil)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The reason that I bought this book was because it was highly recommended by the teachers at my MBA class.
They were not kidding, from head to toe its very good and kept my attention till the end. It has been of great help to me. Aside the history content it helps you to think on how to mitigate risk and how improve the opportunities.
So Close to Wonderful August 14, 2007
J. Sweeney (West Chester, PA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Bernstein does an adequate job bringing the concepts together, but this is not a page-turner. I found myself reading on for the promise of insight, and he offers some, but the writing is a bit dull.
Unpretentious and pleasant July 10, 2007
Prithvi Karthikeyan
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Bernstein is an interesting writer since he is the consummate finance insider- a practioner, regulator and academic. This range helps and harms the book - in his efforts to render the history of risk, he delves into anecdotal caricatures while amusing definitely smack of basis risk with the underlying ideas that are provocative enough! I found the behavioural finance and derivatives section to be rather basic but then realised the book was written in 1996. It's a pleasant read but a more pragmatic introduction to probability is the infinitely witty Cartoon Guide to Statistics.
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