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A Theory of Crash Rate for Private & Public Projects with Critical or non-Critical systems. Analyzing & managing risk has been a quest for 5000 years, and is essential to everything from water supplies, finance, and agriculture to computers and space travel. At last there is a quantitative theory and a simple equation that allows you to: - choose your failure rate - get there optimally - avoid unexpected effects - profit where the competition fails Work a project example based on real-world data to manage the risk of a for-profit 10-passenger transport to an orbital tourism facility. Examine possibilities for managing the crash rate of countries and even the world.

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... give Robert Shuler your undivided attention is this exceptionally well-written investigation into risk and its permutations in the way we today assess everything from Internet apps to spacecraft to investments and once his ideas become negotiable, the way we view the world at present and in the future change ... - Grady Harp, top 100 reviewer When I started reading, I was half-expecting another long-winded book on economic theory that spends hundreds of pages to reiterate what is already known. I was pleasantly surprised, as the author respects the reader's time and intelligence, offering a succinct and insightful study with virtually zero repetition. - Theodore Koukouvitis, author

.. . give Robert Shuler your undivided attention is this exceptionally well-written investigation into risk and its permutations in the way we today assess everything from Internet apps to spacecraft to investments and once his ideas become negotiable, the way we view the world at present and in the future change ... - Grady Harp, top 100 reviewer When I started reading, I was half-expecting another long-winded book on economic theory that spends hundreds of pages to reiterate what is already known. I was pleasantly surprised, as the author respects the reader's time and intelligence, offering a succinct and insightful study with virtually zero repetition. - Theodore Koukouvitis, author

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Robert Shuler combines 42 years of aerospace & software fault tolerant systems design, verification and management with a knack for finding hidden principles. He has half a dozen patents and numerous publications in fields ranging from economics (corporate risk compensation, the equity premium) to physics (inertia & quantum gravity). He lives in Texas with his wife Natasha and son Grandon.

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