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“Risk, as first articulated by the economist Frank H. Knight in 1921, is somethimg that you can put a price on…Uncertainty, on the other hand, is risk that is hard to measure.” quote by Nate Silver — Download Open image

““Risk, as first articulated by the economist Frank H. Knight in 1921, is somethimg that you can put a price on…Uncertainty, on the other hand, is risk that is hard to measure.””

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