CDR: Re: Risk and insurance

[Jim Choate]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Tim May wrote:

> I support this recommendation. A readable book for the layman (most 
> of us), on a par with past classics like "Lying with Statistics" and 
> "Lady Luck." Available in a trade paperback for about $15 or so.
> 
> The book I recommended a week or two ago, Judea Pearl's "Causality," 
> is much more advanced in its mathematics. (But the math is important 
> if one is actually trying to construct the causality diagrams Pearl 
> is talking about.)

What I find funny about Tim's reading recomendation is that the vast
majority don't back his anarchic claims and he has been unable over the
years to use these self-same references to demonstrate his point. Hayek is
a perfect point.

Tim, draw us a causality diagram that demonstrates crypto-anarcy actualy
works...

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