Against the Gods: Die außergewöhnliche Geschichte des Risikos

Ein Bestseller der Business Week, der New York Times Business und der USA Today

"Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism."
― The New York Times

"An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book."
― The Wall Street Journal

"A lively panoramic book . . . Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it."
― Business Week

"Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read."
― The Economist

"[A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world."
― Worth

"No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement."
― Robert Heilbroner, Autor von The Worldly Philosophers

"With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it."
― John Kenneth Galbraith, emeritierter Professor für Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Harvard University

In dieser einzigartigen Auseinandersetzung mit der Rolle des Risikos in unserer Gesellschaft argumentiert Peter Bernstein, dass die Vorstellung, das Risiko unter Kontrolle zu bringen, eine der zentralen Ideen ist, die die Neuzeit von der fernen Vergangenheit unterscheidet. Against the Gods zeichnet das bemerkenswerte intellektuelle Abenteuer nach, das die Menschheit mithilfe der mächtigen Instrumente des Risikomanagements, die uns heute zur Verfügung stehen, von Orakeln und Wahrsagern befreite.

"Eine äußerst lesbare Geschichte des Risikos."
― Barron's

"Fascinating . . . this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face."
― Money

"A singular achievement."
― Times Literary Supplement

"There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history), Oliver Sacks (disease), Richard Dawkins (heredity), James Gleick (physics), Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would mingle well in their company."
― The Australian