Journal of Probability and Statistics
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 838240, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/838240
Research Article

The Foundations of Probability with Black Swans

Departments of Economics and Mathematical Statistics, Columbia University, 335 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10027, USA

Received 8 September 2009; Accepted 25 November 2009

Academic Editor: Ričardas Zitikis

Copyright © 2010 Graciela Chichilnisky. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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