The Last Percent: Maurice Allais’s 1953 Certainty Effect, and Why the Long-Term Equity Investor Overpays to Eliminate the Final Sliver of Risk

Editorial cover: the certainty effect — the disproportionate value the mind adds at the step into certainty.

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