Risk and Opportunity: Neglected Concepts in Economic Decision-Making.

VanSickle, Ronald L.

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ERIC Number: EJ338214

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

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Risk and Opportunity: Neglected Concepts in Economic Decision-Making.

VanSickle, Ronald L.

Georgia Social Science Journal, v17 n2 p1-7 Spr 1986

Maintains that clarifying and evaluating risks is an essential element of education in economic decision making. Shows how common business management concepts of risk and opportunity can be applied to personal economic decision making. Provides a scheme for estimating the risk involved in undertaking new opportunities. (JDH)

Descriptors: Business Skills, Consumer Education, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Economic Progress, Economics Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Opportunities, Risk

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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