Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Name : Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Book Format : Paperback

Edition : 2007

Genre : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780141031484

Language : English

Pages : 301-400 Pages

Publish Year : 2007

Publisher : PENGUIN

One of the smartest books of all time'

Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way think about business and the world.

It is all about luck : more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear entrepreneur has 'vision' or a trader is 'talented', but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where none exist. This irreverent bestseller has shattered the illusions of around the world by teaching them how to recognize randomness. Now it can do the same for.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a radical and paradoxical philosopher for our times. has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher.is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's Polytechnic Institute. His books Fooled by Randomne

Country of Origin : India