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Christian Hugo Hoffmann

Dr. Christian Hugo Hoffmann is a postdoc at the Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), Switzerland.

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Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics

On Conceptualizing Risk: Breaking the Dichotomy between Knightian Risk and Uncertainty

Austrian Economics OverviewEntrepreneurship

05/07/2019Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
What are the different concepts of financial risk? How do Austrian economists conceive of risk, uncertainty, and probability? Christian Hoffmann, parting ways with Mises, provides a taxonomy and cautions about the predominance of probability statistics in the realm of economics and finance.
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