Incerto: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (530 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399590455 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1568 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Chris Curtin said A must have for everyone's library. I am in commercial finance (Taleb makes fun of my ilk) and I find his views on risk to be enlightening. I cannot stress enough how this is a must read for everyone with "skin in the game". If you read this before or during your first course in college statistics, you probably will get kicked out by the "no skin in the game" pr. AOL Jack said Interesting ideas. Over the top Pompous and badly written.. I will be honest I did not finish the book. It was pretty much awful. I did skim though much of it though. Its both badly written and over the top pompous. It reminds me of the first of the Scientology books "Dianetics:_The_Modern_Science_of_Mental_Health". The only significant difference is there is a few actual grains of use. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of the best thinkers about analyzing complex social problems and human behavior Nassim Nicholas Taleb is one of the best thinkers about analyzing complex social problems and human behavior. His books are informative and provocative, and leave you pondering their messages for years afterward. Anyone interested in human behavior and its intersection with economics needs to read these books. After reading th
Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb and the Incerto collection “The hottest thinker in the world.”—The Sunday Times (London) “Taleb writes in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne. We eagerly romp with him through the follies of confirmation bias and narrative fallacy.”—The Wall Street Journal “The most prophetic voice of all a genuinely significant philosopher.”—GQ “Startling richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intrigui
What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. THE BLACK SWAN “A book that altered modern thinking.”—The Times (London) A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable. Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. All four volumes—Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes, updated with more than 50 percent new material—are now together in one boxed set. ANTI
Taleb is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s School of Engineering, but he spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés. Taleb’s books have been published in thirty-five languages. . His focus is on how different systems handle diso