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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Description for The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Paperback. What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? What can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? This title deals with this questions. Num Pages: 480 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 352.
The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertainty
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper?
This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters. Their impact is huge; they're impossible to predict; yet after they happen we always try to rationalize them.
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/>'Taleb is a bouncy and even exhilarating guide ... I came to relish what he said, and even develop a sneaking affection for him as a person' Will Self, Independent on Sunday
'He leaps like some superhero of the mind' Boyd Tonkin, Independent Show Less
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Penguin Books Ltd
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he 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. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering ... Read moreat New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports. Show Less
Reviews for The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
A fascinating study of how we are regularly taken for suckers by the unexpected
Guardian
Like the conversation of a raconteur ... hugely enjoyable - compelling
Financial Times
It has altered modern thinking
The Times
Confirms his status as a guru for every would-be Damien Hirst, George Soros and aspirant despot
Sunday Times ... Read more
The Black Swan changed my view of how the world works
Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow Great fun... brash, stubborn, entertaining, opinionated, curious, cajoling
Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics The most prophetic voice of all
GQ
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