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2023 COMMENTS, CONTRIBUTIONS & CONCLUSIONS | “What is it that distinguishes the thousands of years of history from what we think of as modern times?”

2023 COMMENTS, CONTRIBUTIONS & CONCLUSIONS | “What is it that distinguishes the thousands of years of history from what we think of as modern times?”

by Starling Insights

Starling Insights Editorial Board

Jun 07, 2023

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In his classic, Against the Gods, Peter Bernstein suggests that the modern age began with the mastery of risk: “the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.”

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