Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00K5190LE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 578 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill—the markets—Fooled by Randomness is an irreverent, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining exploration of one of the least understood forces in our lives. What is crucial is that the antifragile loves errors, as it incurs small harm and large benefits from them. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. ANTIFRAGILE “Startling richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides.”—The Wall Street Journal Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS “Fooled by Randomness is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther’s ninety-five th
Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb and the Incerto collection “The hottest thinker in the world.”—The Sunday Times (London) “Taleb writes in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne. We eagerly romp with him through the follies of confirmation bias and narrative fallacy.”—The Wall Street Journal “The most prophetic voice of all a genuinely significant philosopher.”—GQ “Startling richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides.”—The Wall Street Journal, on Antifragile “A bo
His focus is on how different systems handle disorder. . Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent two decades as a trader and risk taker before becoming a full-time essayist and scholar focusing on practical, philosophical, and mathematical problems with chance, luck, and probability. Taleb’s books have been published in thirty-five languages. Taleb is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s School of Engineering, but he spends most of his t
Chris Curtin said A must have for everyone's library. I am in commercial finance (Taleb makes fun of my ilk) and I find his views on risk to be enlightening. I cannot stress enough how this is a must read for everyone with "skin in the game". If you read this before or during your first course in college statistics, you probably will ge. Interesting ideas. Over the top Pompous and badly written. AOL Jack I will be honest I did not finish the book. It was pretty much awful. I did skim though much of it though. Its both badly written and over the top pompous. It reminds me of the first of the Scientology books "Dianetics:_The_Modern_Science_of_Mental_Health". The only significant diffe. Amazon Customer said Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of the best thinkers about analyzing complex social problems and human behavior. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of the best thinkers about analyzing complex social problems and human behavior. His books are informative and provocative, and leave you pondering their messages for years afterward. Anyone interested in human behavior and its intersection with economics