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.
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Chance.
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Random variables.
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ISBN |
9781400067930 |
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1400067936 |
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