Religion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management

Religions come with risk-managing interdicts and heuristics, and they carry such interdicts and heuristics across generations. We remark on such facets of religion in relation to a propensity among some decision scientists and others to regard practices that they cannot understand as being irrational, biased, and so on.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Read, Rupert ; Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
Published in:	Econ Journal Watch. - Economics Department. - Vol. 11.2014, 2, p. 219-226
Publisher:	Economics Department
Subject:	Risk management \| religion \| rationality

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines ; A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values ; L26 - Entrepreneurship ; Z12 - Religion ; Z13 - Social Norms and Social Capital
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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