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Fooled by randomness : the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets
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Title
Fooled by randomness : the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets / Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
ISBN
9781400067930
1400067936
Edition
2nd ed., [New hardcover ed.]
Published
New York : Random House, [2008].
Physical Description
xlviii, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
"Updated by the author."
Originally published: New York : Thomson/Texere, 2004.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 08, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-306) and index.
Contents
If you're so rich, why aren't you so smart?
A bizarre accounting method
A mathematical mediation on history
Randomness, nonsense, and the scientific intellectual
Survival of the least fit : can evolution be fooled by randomness?
Skewness and asymmetry
The problem of induction
Too many millionaires next door
It is easier to buy and sell than fry an egg
Loser takes all : on the nonlinearities of life
Randomness and our mind : we are probability blind
Gamblers' ticks and pigeons in a box
Carneades comes to Rome : on probability and skepticism
Bacchus abandons Antony
Solon told you so
Three afterthoughts in the shower.
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