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Journal articles on the topic "Luck"

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Darke, Peter R., and Jonathan L. Freedman. "Lucky Events and Beliefs in Luck: Paradoxical Effects on Confidence and Risk-Taking." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 23, no. 4 (1997): 378–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167297234004.

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The effects of a lucky event and irrational beliefs about luck were examined. In two experiments, some subjects experienced a lucky event, whereas others did not. All subjects then completed an unrelated decision task rated their confidence, and placed a bet. The effects of a lucky experience depended substantially on individual beliefs concerning the causal properties of luck. After the lucky event, those who believed in luck (i.e., thought of luck as a stable, personal attribute) were more confident and bet more, whereas those who did not believe in luck (i.e., thought luck was random) were

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Boyd, Kenneth. "ENVIRONMENTAL LUCK AND THE STRUCTURE OF UNDERSTANDING." Episteme 17, no. 1 (2018): 73–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2018.18.

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ABSTRACTConventional wisdom holds that there is no lucky knowledge: if it is a matter of luck, in some relevant sense, that one's belief that p is true, then one does not know that p. Here I will argue that there is similarly no lucky understanding, at least in the case of one type of luck, namely environmental luck. This argument has three parts. First, we need to determine how we evaluate whether one has understanding, which requires determining what I will call understanding's evaluative object. I argue that as the evaluative object of (at least a traditional conception of) knowledge is a b

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Stoutenburg, Gregory. "THE EPISTEMIC ANALYSIS OF LUCK." Episteme 12, no. 3 (2015): 319–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2014.35.

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AbstractDuncan Pritchard has argued that luck is fundamentally a modal notion: an event is lucky when it occurs in the actual world, but does not occur in more than half of the relevant nearby possible worlds. Jennifer Lackey has provided counterexamples to accounts which, like Pritchard's, only allow for the existence of improbable lucky events. Neil Levy has responded to Lackey by offering a modal account of luck which attempts to respect the intuition that some lucky events occur in more than half of the relevant nearby possible worlds. But his account rejects that events which are as likel

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Chernyak, Alexey Z. "Knowledge and Luck." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 57, no. 2 (2020): 61–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202057222.

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There is a widely shared belief in contemporary epistemology that propositional knowledge is incompatible with certain kinds of luck, most of all with so called veritic luck. A subject is veritically lucky in his or her belief that p if this belief is true not due to its foundations (for example, reasons which an agent has to believe that p) but by mere accident. The acceptance of the thesis of incompatibility of knowledge with this kind of luck led to significant modifications of a popular modern epistemological tripartite analysis of propositional knowledge according to which subject knows t

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Michalek, Arthur M. "Bad Luck, No Luck, Good Luck!" Journal of Cancer Education 30, no. 2 (2015): 205–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13187-015-0817-0.

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Khalifa, Kareem. "UNDERSTANDING, GRASPING AND LUCK." Episteme 10, no. 1 (2013): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2013.6.

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AbstractRecently, it has been debated as to whether understanding is a species of explanatory knowledge. Those who deny this claim frequently argue that understanding, unlike knowledge, can be lucky. In this paper I argue that current arguments do not support this alleged compatibility between understanding and epistemic luck. First, I argue that understanding requires reliable explanatory evaluation, yet the putative examples of lucky understanding underspecify the extent to which subjects possess this ability. In the course of defending this claim, I also provide a new account of the kind of

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Deshaye, Joel. "‘Do I feel lucky?’: Moral Luck, Bluffing and the Ethics of Eastwood's Outlaw-Lawman in Coogan's Bluff and the Dirty Harry Films." Film-Philosophy 21, no. 1 (2017): 20–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/film.2017.0029.

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In Coogan's Bluff (1968) and the Dirty Harry films, Clint Eastwood's characters often invoke luck when they want unpredictable others to assume some responsibility to stop violence, thereby implicating moral luck in heroism. In the famous ‘Do I feel lucky’ scene from Dirty Harry (1971), Eastwood's character might not be bluffing, but he is giving luck a role in justice. In this case and others, his character's unconventional responsibility should prompt reconsideration of his character's virtue. Viewers must also decide where the deceptive or rule-breaking policeman locates the responsibility

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Chernyak, Alexey Z. "Virtue Epistemology as Anti-luck Epistemology." Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 58, no. 4 (2021): 77–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eps202158462.

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The idea that knowledge as an individual mental attitude with certain propositional content is not only true justified belief but a belief the truth of which does not result from any kind of luck, is widely spread in contemporary epistemology. This account is known as anti-luck epistemology. A very popular explanation of the inconsistency of that concept of knowledge with the luck-dependent nature of truth (so called veritic luck taking place when a subject’s belief could not be true if not by mere coincidence) presumes that the status of propositional knowledge crucially depends on the qualit

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Barba, Moisés, and Fernando Broncano-Berrocal. "Collective Epistemic Luck." Acta Analytica 37, no. 1 (2021): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12136-021-00485-x.

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AbstractA platitude in epistemology is that an individual’s belief does not qualify as knowledge if it is true by luck. Individuals, however, are not the only bearers of knowledge. Many epistemologists agree that groups can also possess knowledge in a way that is genuinely collective. If groups can know, it is natural to think that, just as true individual beliefs fall short of knowledge due to individual epistemic luck, true collective beliefs may fall short of knowledge because of collective epistemic luck. This paper argues, first, that the dominant view of epistemic luck in the literature,

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Teigen, Karl Halvor, and Tine K. Jensen. "Unlucky Victims or Lucky Survivors?" European Psychologist 16, no. 1 (2011): 48–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000033.

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Subjective experiences of good or bad luck appear to depend upon downward or upward comparisons with close counterfactuals. People exposed to disasters have both options: They were at the wrong place at the wrong time, but their fate could in many cases have been worse; so in a sense, they are unlucky victims, but lucky survivors. Interviews with 85 Norwegian tourists 9–11 months after they had been exposed to the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia showed good luck to be a pivotal theme in a majority of the narratives. Nobody claimed they had been unfortunate or unlucky. Moreover, downward cou

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Luck"

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Flynn, Jennifer. "Luck." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/MQ42615.pdf.

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Willaby, Harold. "Luck Feelings, Luck Beliefs, and Decision Making." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8926.

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Luck feelings have long been thought to influence decision making involving risk. Previous research has established the importance of prior outcomes, luck beliefs, and counterfactual thinking in the generation of luck feelings, but there has been no comprehensive demonstration of this system of variables that impinge on luck feelings. Moreover, the actual relationship of luck feelings and risky choice has not been directly tested. Addressing these gaps, results from five studies are presented in this thesis. Empirical work begins with an extensive validation exercise of an existing 22-item luc

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Simmons, Kianna R. "Evoking Luck." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2012. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1482.

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Abstract Gambling is a universal activity, although not a recently studied behavior in Sociological literature. This study uses symbolic interaction, play, and illusion of control theories to examine luck rituals at casino slots. Gamblers were observed through covert participant observations over a seven-month observation period in The casino, and yielded 388 observations. Analysis of the gamblers demonstrated the fact that luck rituals do exist and are used at the slot machines in a casino setting. Luck rituals are associated with participants’ belief in their ability to control the uncontrol

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Latus, Andrew Michael. "Avoiding luck, the problem of moral luck and its significance." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0008/NQ35218.pdf.

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Barry, Nicholas. "Defending luck egalitarianism." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0036.

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[Truncated abstract] In this thesis, I seek to determine whether luck egalitarianism is a compelling interpretation of egalitarian justice. In answering this question, I challenge existing interpretations and criticisms of luck egalitarianism, and highlight its radical consequences. I propose a revised theory of luck egalitarianism, and conclude that it does represent a compelling interpretation of egalitarian justice. In the first chapter, I trace the evolution of luck egalitarianism, highlighting the variety of theories that have been grouped under this label. In chapter 2, I defend the app

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Whittington, Lee John. "Metaphysics of luck." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/20409.

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Clare, the titular character of The Time Traveller's Wife, reflects that "Everything seems simple until you think about it." (Niffenegger, 2003, 1) This might well be a mantra for the whole of philosophy, but a fair few terms tend to stick out. "Knowledge", "goodness" and "happiness" for example, are all pervasive everyday terms that undergo significant philosophical analysis. "Luck", I think, is another one of these terms. Wishing someone good luck in their projects, and cursing our bad luck when success seems so close to our reach or failure could have so easily been otherwise, happens so of

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Barry, Nicholas. "Defending luck egalitarianism /." Connect to this title, 2006. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0036.

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Harrison, Gerald Kingsley. "Free will and luck." Thesis, Durham University, 2005. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2732/.

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The problem of free will is a problem about control and luck. If causal determinism is true, then everything we do is ultimately a matter of luck, as it is if causal determinism is false. Either way we seem to lack free will of the kind needed for moral responsibility. In this thesis a case is built for a certain type of modest incompatibilist view on free will. It is argued that it makes no difference in terms of control whether determinism or indeterminism obtains. What matters is that we have a certain kind of ownership over what we do. Causal determinism rules this out, but indeterminism d

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Mylne, Colin Andrew. "Luck and moral agency." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240976.

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Han, Rui. "Luck egalitarianism : criticisms and alternatives /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4413826X.

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Books on the topic "Luck"

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1970-, Williams Lisa, ed. Bad luck, Lucy! Franklin Watts, 2007.

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Graves, Sue. Bad luck, Lucy! Crabtree Pub. Co., 2008.

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Carter, Sam. Good luck, bad luck. Franklin Watts, 2009.

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Perillo, Lucia Maria. Luck is luck: Poems. Random House, 2004.

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Schlachter, Rita. Good luck, bad luck. Troll Associates, 1986.

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ill, James Lillie, ed. Good luck bad luck. Viking, 1991.

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Chilton, Irma. Luck. Cassell, 1997.

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Faust, Frederick Schiller. Luck. Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc., 2009.

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Hofmann, Gert. Luck. Vintage, 2003.

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Barfoot, Joan. Luck. Carroll & Graf, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "Luck"

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Rescher, Nicholas. "Luck." In Philosophical Clarifications. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15269-7_12.

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Fraser-Reid, Bert. "“Luck?”." In From Sugar to Splenda. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22781-3_6.

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Teigen, Karl Halvor. "Luck." In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_1712.

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Teigen, Karl Halvor. "Luck." In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17299-1_1712.

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Szenberg, Michael, and Lall Ramrattan. "Luck." In Economic Ironies Throughout History. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137450821_11.

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Teigen, Karl Halvor. "Luck." In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_1712-2.

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Church, Ian M., and Robert J. Hartman. "Luck." In The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Luck. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351258760-1.

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Allison, Scott T. "Heroism, Good Luck, and Bad Luck." In Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17125-3_540-1.

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Allison, Scott T. "Heroism, Good Luck, and Bad Luck." In Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48129-1_540.

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Wollner, Gabriel. "Luck Egalitarianism." In Handbuch Gerechtigkeit. J.B. Metzler, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05345-9_39.

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Conference papers on the topic "Luck"

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Zhao, Yaping, and Edmund Y. Lam. "LUCK: Lighting Up Colors in the Dark." In 2024 9th Optoelectronics Global Conference (OGC). IEEE, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ogc62429.2024.10738746.

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Wu, Cuifeng, and Linru Nie. "Can Lucky Dividends Really Bring Luck to Listed Companies?" In ICEBA 2021: 2021 7th International Conference on E-Business and Applications. ACM, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3457640.3457671.

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Blanchard, Collin A., Holly A. Buff, Travis D. Cook, et al. "Print (“Good Luck!”)." In CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3170427.3180287.

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Milutinovic, Mitar, Warren He, Howard Wu, and Maxinder Kanwal. "Proof of Luck." In Middleware '16: 17th International Middleware Conference. ACM, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3007788.3007790.

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Tan, Hans. "No Such Luck." In C&C '17: Creativity and Cognition. ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3059454.3059504.

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Prais, Michael G., and Nanette Suitts. "Seven years good luck." In the 24th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference. ACM Press, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/262051.262098.

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Aoki, Raquel Y. S., Renato M. Assuncao, and Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo. "Luck is Hard to Beat." In KDD '17: The 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. ACM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3097983.3098045.

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Korpole, P. "Not a Stroke of Luck!" In American Thoracic Society 2023 International Conference, May 19-24, 2023 - Washington, DC. American Thoracic Society, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2023.207.1_meetingabstracts.a3534.

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Chernyak, Alexey. "Egalitarian Distributive Justice and Reasoning Luck." In 2016 International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities. Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/iccessh-16.2016.152.

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Yendler, Boris. "Satellite Rescue- Luck of Skillful Application of Technology." In AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference & Exposition. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2012-5287.

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Reports on the topic "Luck"

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Benhabib, Jess, and Shenghao Zhu. Age, Luck, and Inheritance. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w14128.

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Seybold, Patricia. Culture Nurtures Innovation at Luck Stone. Patricia Seybold Group, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1571/cs04-24-14cc.

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Davis, Lucas, and Catherine Hausman. Are Energy Executives Rewarded For Luck? National Bureau of Economic Research, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w25391.

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Frisancho, Verónica, Kala Krishna, Sergey Lychagin, and Cemile Yavas. Better Luck Next Time: Learning Through Retaking. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w19663.

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Yavas, Cemile, Kala Krishna, Verónica Frisancho, and Sergey Lychagin. Better Luck Next Time: Learning through Retaking. Inter-American Development Bank, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011536.

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This paper provides some evidence that repeat taking of competitive exams may reduce the impact of background disadvantages on educational outcomes. Using administrative data on the university entrance exam in Turkey, the paper estimates cumulative learning between the first and the nth attempt while controlling for selection into retaking in terms of observed and unobserved characteristics. Large learning gains measured in terms of improvements in the exam scores are found, especially among less advantaged students.

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editors, EAF. Australia now has to create new economic luck. East Asia Forum, 2024. https://doi.org/10.59425/eabc.1735545600.

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Green, Robert, and Michael Linnington. Sadat & The Yom Kippur War: Luck or Brilliance? Defense Technical Information Center, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada442409.

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Buchanan, Ian. Australia avoids the crisis, by luck and good management. East Asia Forum, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.59425/eabc.1261605649.

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Beaty, James E. Luck Is Not a Strategy: Inefficient Coercion In Operation Allied Force. Defense Technical Information Center, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ad1009082.

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Easterly, William, Michael Kremer, Lant Pritchett, and Lawrence Summers. Good Policy or Good Luck? Country Growth Performance and Temporary Shocks. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w4474.

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