This book combines the study of rhetoric, history, philosophy, philosophy of statistics and the culture of investing to discuss the foundations of shastical predictability in investment theory. Besides discussing the problem of shastical prediction, the book also covers alternative investment theories. Ideas from uncertainty economics, expressed by the likes of Keynes, Knight, von Mises, Taleb and McCloskey are also discussed. This book will be of interest to researchers and academics in the field of investment theory, as well as investment practitioners.