The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nassim Nicholas TalebSeries:Incerto #2Publish date:2010-05-11Pages:480
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780812973815ISBN-10:081297381XUPC:9780812973815Book Category:Business & Economics, ComputersBook Subcategory:Management, Information Theory, Corporate FinanceSize:8.60 x 4.52 x 1.04 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCGPCZZ509
The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility
The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don't know, now with a new section called "On Robustness and Fragility." 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...
Series: Incerto #2
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780812973815ISBN-10:081297381XUPC:9780812973815Book Category:Business & Economics, ComputersBook Subcategory:Management, Information Theory, Corporate FinanceSize:8.60 x 4.52 x 1.04 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCGPCZZ509
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to problems of uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. He spent nearly two decades as a businessman and quantitative trader before becoming a full-time philosophical essayist and academic researcher in 2006. Although he spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés, he is currently Distinguished...
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