CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Preface

Illustrations

1  Three wishes from a genie

2  The ills of pills

3  Getting the right medicine

4  The chatter of money

5  Watering your money plant

6  Lessons from gurus

7  Creative destruction

8  Does God play dice?

9  Past or future

10  Of subways and coconuts: two types of uncertainty

11  Genius or fallible?

12  The inevitability of decisions

13  Happiness, happiness, happiness

Conclusion

Postscript

Endnotes

Index