Each time you lay your head on the pillow at night or set your feet on the floor come morning, you bet your life. Exactly what odds do you face 24/7?
You Bet Your Life applies to you, the individual, the analytical approach insurance companies use to calculate risk: actuarial science. The result is a comprehensive, encyclopedic, real world assessment of more than 1,000 of the risks we take every day of our all-too-finite lives, from boarding an airplane to tempting a shark attack by dipping a toe in the ocean.
You Bet Your Life is introduced by an authoritative essay explaining how professional actuaries calculate risk and how less objective entities--in government, finance, science, technology, and religion--apply their own competing calculi of risk and reward.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780789270177
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Abbeville Publishing Group
Publication Date: 07-19-2022
Pages: 672
Product Dimensions: 8.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 2.10(d)
About the Author
Sheila Buff has written or developed eight national best sellers. She is an honors graduate of Washington Square College at New York University. Joe Buff holds a master’s in mathematics from MIT and is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA). After a long Wall Street career, he became a best-selling novelist.
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