Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled by Randomness (eBook, ePUB)

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'One of the smartest books of all time' Fortune
'The hottest thinker in the world' Sunday Times

Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable?

This book is the bestselling sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear an entrepreneur has 'vision' or a trader is 'talented', but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where none exist.

'An iconoclastic tour de force ... nothing escapes his Exocets' Evening Standard

'Brilliant' John Kay

'Excellent and thought-provoking ... an entertaining book' Financial Times

'Wall Street's principal dissident' Malcolm Gladwell

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141930237
• Artikelnr.: 39122900

Autorenporträt

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.

Rezensionen

"[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