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The map and the territory : [risk, human nature, and the future of forecasting] /

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Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. How had our models so utterly failed us? To answer this question, he embarked on a rigorous and far-reaching multiyear examination of how Homo economicus...

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Main Author: Greenspan, Alan
Corporate Author: Penguin Audio (Firm)
Other Authors: Hillgartner, Malcolm
Format: CD Audio Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Penguin Audio, [2013]
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Economic forecasting > United States.
Financial crises > United States.
United States > Economic policy.
Economic forecasting.
Risk.
Audiobooks.
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Summary:Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. How had our models so utterly failed us? To answer this question, he embarked on a rigorous and far-reaching multiyear examination of how Homo economicus predicts the economic future, and how it can predict it better. This audiobook is nothing less than an effort to update our forecasting conceptual grid using twenty-first-century technologies.
Item Description:Subtitle from container.
Compact discs.
Sound recording.
Physical Description:8 sound discs (9 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9781611762143
1611762146