Religion, Heuristics, and Intergenerational Risk Management

Rupert Read and Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Econ Journal Watch, 2014, vol. 11, issue 2, 219-226

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Risk management; religion; rationality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 A13 L26 Z12 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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