The classical theory of the rational, economic man would have him avoid risk and thereby avoid the coin flip.
Even the much-maligned figure of rational economic man, maximising his utility, is less an article of faith than an excuse to use calculus.
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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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.
Yet for this liberal man, economic malaise may just be the price of social justice.
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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Iran has protested that the man was a member of an economic delegation.
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.
Neither answer reflects particularly well on a man claiming to have a plan for job creation and economic growth.
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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.
"This town could use an economic infusion, " he says, pausing to wave to an elderly man riding his lawnmower around the courthouse square.
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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The regeneration of Isle of Man town and village centres can play a vital role in supporting economic growth, the Chief Minister has said.
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.
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 who thinks he can explain Ms Royal is Eric Besson, her former chief economic adviser, who quit during this campaign.
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.
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 may further take the shine off Mr Brown's government but, paradoxically, voters who fear an economic slowdown may be less inclined to trust an untested team of young Conservative leaders rather than the man who, as chancellor, oversaw many years of sustained growth.
During this time period investors have experienced not one, not two, not three but rather a multitude of catastrophic economic events that have eroded the trust of the general investment public to a point where the boogie man is standing around every corner awaiting his opportunity to eat them.
The company also owns and operates the Man Sang Industrial City, an industrial complex in the Chinese Gong Ming Zhen, Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.
He was a point man on relations with big business and some major state-owned companies, and on efforts to boost economic growth.
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