Risk
Why We Misjudge Disaster
$31.39
- Paperback
262 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2026
Summary
Risk is not danger. It is the counting.
Every society is a bet. Its granaries wager on the harvest, its walls on the enemy, its debts on a future that has not yet voted on the matter.
Most of those bets are counted wrong.
The errors are not random. They are patterned.
In Risk, Joel Thomas examines how human beings and the institutions they build estimate the likelihood of disaster, and why they get it …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781972041161 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1972041169 |
| Author: | Joel Thomas |
| Publisher: | Nomical Books |
| Imprint: | Nomical Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 262 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 308g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Architecture of Power |
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Eye-opening. Mind-changing. The book that changes how you see every risk you take.
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“This book may have broken my brain a little.”
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