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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Marketsby Nassim Nichol Taleb
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"[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 Review:"Fascinating...Taleb will grab you."
Peter L. Bernstein, author of Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Review:"We need a book like this...fun to read, refreshingly independent-minded." Robert J. Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance Review:"Taleb examines how and why the attempt to determine cause and effect is continually hampered by random occurrences and our emotional responses to them." Booklist Synopsis:"[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. About the AuthorNassim Nicholas Taleb is the author of The Black Swan. He has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. Part literary essayist, part empiricist, part researcher, part no-nonsense businessman, he spent eighteen years as a mathematical trader, and was the Dean’s Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Taleb lives mostly in New York. From the Hardcover edition. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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