Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

ISBN 10: 159659201X ISBN 13: 9781596592018

Publisher: Gildan Media Corporation, 2008

Synopsis

Fooled by Randomness The author of The Black Swan argues that randomness and probability have a profound influence on human life, as well as the consistent inability of humans to recognize that role, and explains how to differentiate between randomness in general and the financial markets in particular. Read by Sean Pratt. Simultaneous.

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Review:

One of the smartest books of all time (Fortune )

Wall Street's principal dissident (Malcolm Gladwell )

Brilliant (John Kay )

An iconoclastic tour de force (Evening Standard )

About the Author:

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an essayist principally concerned with the problems of uncertainty and knowledge. Taleb's interests lie at the intersection of philosophy, mathematics, finance, literature, and cognitive science but he has stayed extremely close the ground thanks to an uninterrupted two-decade career as a mathematical trader. Specializing in the risks of unpredicted rare events (black swans"), he held senior trading positions in New York and London before founding Empirica LLC, a trading firm and risk research laboratory. Taleb is a fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science of New York University where he has been teaching a class on the failure of models since 1999. He has an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from The University of Paris Dauphine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gildan Media Corporation
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 159659201X
• ISBN 13: 9781596592018
• Binding: Audio CD