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Author Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-

Title Fooled by randomness : the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets / Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Edition Second edition, updated
Publication Info. New York : Random House, 2005
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b3066341~S1
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 Naper Blvd. Adult Nonfiction  332.6 TAL    DUE 04-29-24
 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  332.6 TAL    DUE 05-13-24
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Description xxlviii, 316 pages ; 24 cm
Note Originally published: New York : Thomson/Texere, 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references ( p. [293]-306) and index
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments for the updated second edition -- Solon's warning : skewness, asymmetry, induction -- 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
Subject Investments.
Chance.
Random variables.
ISBN 9781400067930
1400067936
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