Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

ISBN-13: 9780812975215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 316 str.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Opis

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, and The Bed of Procrustes.

" Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther's ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church."
-Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker

Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world.This book is about luck: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences.

Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill-the world of business-Fooled by Randomness is an irreverent, iconoclastic, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining exploration of one of the least understood forces in all of our lives.

Recenzje

"[Taleb is] Wall Street s principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther s ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church.
Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker

Fascinating . . . Taleb will grab you.
Peter L. Bernstein, author of Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Recalls the best of scientist/essayists like Richard Dawkins . . . and Stephen Jay Gould.
Michael Schrage, author of Serious Play

We need a book like this . . . fun to read, refreshingly independent-minded.
Robert J. Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance

O autorze

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to problems of uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. He spent nearly two decades as a businessman and quantitative trader before becoming a full-time philosophical essayist and academic researcher in 2006. Although he spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University s Polytechnic Institute. His main subject matter is decision making under opacity that is, a map and a protocol on how we should live in a world we don t understand.
 
Taleb s books have been published in forty-one languages.