The classical theory of the rational, economic man would have him avoid risk and thereby avoid the coin flip.
We can hope that even in the face of all the backlash against globalization a deep desire on the part of "economic man" for more and better will carry the day.
The economic losses from man-made disasters are just as real as those from natural disasters.
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But for most of the past year he has been missing in action shunted to the sidelines by the McCain campaign and wheeled out only when the dismal economic news made a statement from the top man impossible to avoid.
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The Barack Obama experiment, conducted by this 47-year old man, is the riskiest economic wager the world has ever seen.
You could understand his dilem-ma, but it was nevertheless disappointing to hear the great man speak such economic hogwash.
One question lurking in a number of Labour minds is whether they can craft an economic message capable of attracting voters, while the man delivering is a key architect of New Labour's economic policies.
It seems like a long time ago, because man, can the economic news get any worse for the purveyors of physical media?
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Even the much-maligned figure of rational economic man, maximising his utility, is less an article of faith than an excuse to use calculus.
To rebut that, he has been pressing for a man-to-man economic summit with the chancellor and has even half-won this battle for prestige, since he and Mr Kohl will indeed confront each other next week, not alone but at the head of their economic teams.
Iran has protested that the man was a member of an economic delegation.
The fame that goes along with being known as the men who steered our economy past the shoals of economic collapse will be considerable, and it could ultimately redound to the credit of the man who nominated them to their posts.
The regeneration of Isle of Man town and village centres can play a vital role in supporting economic growth, the Chief Minister has said.
The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
Yet for this liberal man, economic malaise may just be the price of social justice.
They write that the club owns 100% of the economic rights of just five players on its 27-man roster, based on Porto's annual report.
Ultimately, Mr Geithner's legacy may be as the man who won the financial crisis but lost the economic recovery.
Estrada replaced Espiritu as finance secretary with the well-regarded Jose Pardo, who had held the trade and industry portfolio, named a six-man Economic Coordinating Council of top officials to bring badly-needed coherence and momentum to policy-making, and recruited five business elder statesmen as senior advisers.
He told a panicked man in Wisconsin not to be too frightened about the economic crisis: America would pull through.
To Mexico's elite, he is seen as the man who will continue President Zedillo's market-oriented economic policies.
Because to talk about economics, you must talk about man -- the creator, manager and consumer of all economic goods.
On his home turf of north-western Uganda, however, Amin is remembered as a black leader who stood up to whites, as a rugby-playing man of the people, and as a preacher of African economic empowerment.
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Good Man Gone A couple of weeks ago an unheralded hero of the extraordinary economic boom we've been enjoying since 1982 died suddenly, at age 65.
He is viewed as a man who purportedly fully grasps the implications of the Soviet system's economic failure and the resulting requirement for Soviet military and imperial retrenchment and political democratization as preconditions for future Soviet economic development.
Economic liberals argue that the market itself is the greatest price-discovery mechanism known to man.
First Jersey chief, Robert Brennan, and his 1, 000-man sales staff peddle the stock of companies that exist but are of questionable economic value.
One man's trash is another's treasure, though, and the rocky economic environment drove Weinswig to upgrade Family Dollar Stores to buy, a reflection of her expectation that dollar stores will be enticing to consumers looking to stretch a budget.
But both the economic and social appeal of liberty are, in the long run, irresistible because it is in man's nature to be free.
This adds an element of corruption to a man who was elected as head of the liberal party, a party that holds conservative economic views, quite the opposite of views held by Chavez.
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