E-grāmata: Fooled by Randomness

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb''s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don''t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, and The Bed of Procrustes."[ Taleb is] 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."ā€“Malcolm Gladwell, The New YorkerFinally 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 skillā€“the world of businessā€“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.