Title :	Fooled by Randomness : The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Material Type:	printed text
Authors:	Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author
Publisher:	Random House USA Inc
Publication Date:	2005
Pagination:	316 p.
Layout:	ill.
Size:	20.47 x 13.36 x 2.13 centimetres (0.22 kg)
ISBN (or other code):	978-0-8129-7521-5
Languages :	English (eng)
Descriptors:	823 English fiction : novel
Abstract:	"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.

Fooled by Randomness : The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets [printed text] / Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author . - Random House USA Inc, 2005 . - 316 p. : ill. ; 20.47 x 13.36 x 2.13 centimetres (0.22 kg).
ISBN : 978-0-8129-7521-5
Languages : English (eng)

Descriptors:

823 English fiction : novel

Abstract:

"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.