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Fooled by Randomness

  • 312 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 2001
  • 19 editions

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1 About this book

[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.

Good for readers who want: mathematics and business.

  • Mathematics
  • Business
  • Chance
  • Investments
  • Finance
  • Success in business
  • Investment analysis
  • Alltag

2 About Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Born 1960

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American university professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty. Taleb wrote Incerto, a five-volume work on the nature of uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 which includes the notable volumes The Black Swan and Antifragile.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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