Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (708 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812975219 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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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 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. Fooled By Randomness is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther’s ninety-nine theses w
Precisely very random and thought provoking Rhushikesh Bhadkamkar This is one the first books I ever read on markets and trading. However compared to its reviews it turned out to something completely different. It definitely was not a kind of a book where you can just read and move on but a kind that actually makes you stop and think. I always had the impression that books about the market or the economy come with a baggage of understanding the material and concepts beforehand. Fooled by Randomness threw m. Mayur Patel said How We Are All Fools of Randomness. By Mayur PatelHow We Are All Fools of Randomness This book was not the simplest book I have ever read, but very insightful for the market trader/investor. I will provide a little insight of my own into the realm of Nassim Taleb. I enjoyed the fact that the author explained concepts of the financial nature in the most basic manner. For a person not to savvy in financial terminology the book was readable, it was actually other topics that the . It's always a good thing to expand the way you think I would have given the book 5 stars but there were some grammatical and syntax errors that bothered me. I guess I am used to editors who fix that kind of thing. But maybe that's not a good thing, maybe language irregularities are the way a language grows, so what one person calls an error another could call progress. But hey, don't we need some kind of standard, I mean where is the stability?Aha - that is one of the issues this book tackles
Here's an articulate, wise, and humorous meditation on the nature of success and failure that anyone who wants a little more of the former would do well to consider. Part of what makes this book so good is Taleb's ability to make seemingly arcane mathematical concepts (at least to this reviewer) entirely relevant in evaluating and understanding everything from the stock market to the success of those millionaires cited in the aforementioned bestsellers. This eccentric and highly personal exploration of the nature of randomness meanders from the court of Croesus and trading rooms in New York and London to Russian roulette, Monte Carlo engines, and the philosophy of Karl Popper. --Harry C. If the prescriptions for getting rich that are outlined in books such as The Millionaire Next Door and Rich Dad Poor Dad are successful enough to make the books bestselle