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All About Luck

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Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country

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This chapter is “all about luck”. I review my whole life and ask how much has been luck and how much, if any, planning and good decision-making. It seems obvious to me there has been a huge amount of luck. The title of this book is justified.

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Corden, W.M. (2017). All About Luck. In: Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country. Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65166-8_18

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