ENGLISH

Fooled by Randomness

By Taleb Nassim Nicholas

Book information

Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks; 2 Updated edition
Year
2005
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1161624 bytes)
Pages
213\213
Topic
Economy
Time added
2010-01-07 06:59:20

Description

"[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.

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