Fooled by randomness : the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets / Nassim Nicholas Taleb
By: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas.
New York : Random House, 2005Edition: 2nd ed., updated.Description: xix, 316 p. : 24 cm.ISBN: 9780812975215 (pbk.).Subject(s): Investments | Chance | Random variablesGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 123/.3| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Originally published: New York : Thomson/Texere, 2004
Includes bibliographical references ( p. [293]-306) and index
If you're so rich, why aren't you so smart? -- A bizarre accounting method -- A mathematical mediation on history -- Randomness, nonsense, and the scientific intellectual -- Survival of the least fit : can evolution be fooled by randomness? -- Skewness and asymmetry -- The problem of induction -- Too many millionaires next door -- It is easier to buy and sell than fry an egg -- Loser takes all : on the nonlinearities of life -- Randomness and our mind : we are probability blind -- Gamblers' ticks and pigeons in a box -- Carneades comes to Rome : on probability and skepticism -- Bacchus abandons Antony -- Solon told you so -- Three afterthoughts in the shower