Black Swan the Impact of the Highly Improbable (P/B)
Black Swan the Impact of the Highly Improbable (P/B)
Author: Taleb N
ISBN: 9780141034591
Edition: 1ST - 2008
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What Have the Invention of the Wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the Internet Got in Common? Why Are All Forecasters Con-Artists? What Can Catherine the Great's Lovers Tell Us About Probability? And, Why Should You Never Run for a Train or Read a Newspaper? This Book is All About Black Swans the Random Events That Underlie Our Lives, From Bestsellers to World Disasters. Their Impact is Huge; They're Impossible to Predict; yet After They Happen We Always Try to Rationalize Them. a Rallying Cry to Ignore the 'Experts', "The Black Swan" Shows Us How to Stop Trying to Predict Everything - and Take Advantage of Uncertainty.
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