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TitleFOOLED BY RANDOMNESS
AuthorNASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB
PublisherPENGUIN
SubjectMANAGEMENT
Age GroupAdult
Series
LanguageEnglish
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Fooled by Randomness

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Talebâ??s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we donâ??t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, and The Bed of Procrustes. â??[Taleb is] Wall Streetâ??s principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Lutherâ??s ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church.â?? â??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 skillâ??the world of businessâ??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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
PublisherRandom House
ISBN9781588367679
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