Max Barry on Risk

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By Barry Ritholtz - September 13th, 2009, 8:30PM

Bestselling satirical novelist Max Barry explains how our attitudes toward risk both define and confine us.

He uses the mishandling of financial risk in the corporate world as a springboard to a more general discussion about the ways our attitudes towards different kinds of risk define us as people — how risk informs the fundamental decisions we make about our lives.

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