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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald Morris |
ISBN: | 1591024021 9781591024026 |
OCLC Number: | 62895826 |
Description: | 461 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | An opportunity model -- Piecing together opportunity from its natural habitats : investing, economics, gambling, criminology, and marketing -- Other contexts of opportunity : law, game theory, finance, business strategy, and entrepreneurship -- Other contexts : religion and equality of opportunity -- The absence of opportunity : poverty -- Absence of opportunity : stigmatization, hell, slavery, predestination, and Camus' Stranger -- Opportunism -- The framework : a worldview -- The elements and context -- Predicting the future -- Engaging and predicting the future, applications : investing, economics, and gambling -- Engaging and predicting the future, applications : criminology, marketing, law, and human nature -- Engaging the future, applications : superstition, induction, and prayer -- Hierarchy and opportunity -- Pulling it together -- The nutshell of opportunity : sayings, proverbs, aphorisms, quips, and poems. |
Other Titles: | Optimizing life's chances |
Responsibility: | Donald Morris. |
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Abstract:
Drawing from a range of applications, including investing, law, criminology, gambling, and religion, this book shows how opportunities can be defined in various contexts. It examines undesirable situations, where opportunity is lacking, such as poverty and historical instances of slavery to illustrate the defining characteristics of opportunity.
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