Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Talebs landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decisionmaking in a world we dont understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game,and The Bed of Procrustes.Fooled by Randomness is the wordofmouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Talebveteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swanhas written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. This book is about luckor more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skillthe world of tradingFooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives. The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whom have grasped, in their own way, the significance of chance the baseball legend Yogi Berra the philosopher of knowledge Karl Popper the ancient worlds wisest man, Solon the modern financier George Soros and the Greek voyager Odysseus. We also meet the...
Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: KCHS; Weight: 388 g; Dimensions: 133 x 202 x 25
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Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Talebs landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decisionmaking in a world we dont understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game,and The Bed of Procrustes.Fooled by Randomness is the wordofmouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Talebveteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swanhas written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. This book is about luckor more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skillthe world of tradingFooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives. The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whom have grasped, in their own way, the significance of chance the baseball legend Yogi Berra the philosopher of knowledge Karl Popper the ancient worlds wisest man, Solon the modern financier George Soros and the Greek voyager Odysseus. We also meet the...
Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: KCHS; Weight: 388 g; Dimensions: 133 x 202 x 25
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