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The Casino Illusion: Risk Mismanagement and the Ludic Fallacy

The Casino Illusion: Risk Mismanagement and the Ludic Fallacy

Por Rosales, Eileen

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English 2026
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Why do multi-billion-dollar hedge funds, staffed by the most brilliant quantitative analysts in the world, routinely collapse overnight despite possessing flawless risk-assessment models? Their fatal mistake is not a mathematical error, but a profound philosophical misunderstanding of reality known as the Ludic Fallacy. In a casino, risk is entirely sterile and predictable. The odds of a roulette wheel or a pair of dice are governed by strict, unbreakable mathematical rules with a known set of variables. The Ludic Fallacy occurs when arrogant corporate executives assume that the real, chaotic world of finance and geopolitics operates under the same clean, calculable probabilities. They build complex models based on historical data, completely ignoring the "unknown unknowns"—the unpredictable, catastrophic Black Swan events that cannot be modeled because they have never happened before. This aggressive financial autopsy dissects the hubris of modern risk management. It explores the catastrophic failure of Long-Term Capital Management, the delusion of Gaussian bell curves in economics, and the necessity of preparing for the impossible. Differentiate between games and reality. The Ludic Fallacy proves that mathematically mastering the known risks of the market is useless when you are eventually destroyed by the unknown ones.

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The Casino Illusion: Risk Mismanagement and the Ludic Fallacy está disponible como eBook en 8 librerías online. Entre las librerías que lo venden están Bajalibros Argentina, Bajalibros Latam, Bookshop Uruguay.

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