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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets |  | Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Creator: Sean Pratt
Publisher: Your Coach In A Box
Category: Book
List Price: $39.98
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Seller: Amazon.com
Sales Rank: 347,949
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: 2
Discs: 8
Number Of Items: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.3 x 1.4 x 6
ISBN: 159659201X
Dewey Decimal Number: 123.3
EAN: 9781596592018
ASIN: 159659201X
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Product Description
From Publishers Weekly In this look at financial luck, hedge fund manager Taleb (Dynamic Hedging) addresses the apparently irrational movement of money markets around the world. Using his own investing experience and examples of others' successes and disappointments, he discusses theories like Monte Carlo math (easy; considered cheating by purists) and the concept of Russian roulette. Taleb tells interesting, well-wrought stories about individual behavior: "While Nero has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, both personally and intellectually, he is starting to consider himself as having missed a chance somewhere." While serious investors and mathematics enthusiasts will be intrigued, readers looking for practical investment strategies will be disappointed by this rambling intellectual discourse. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Amazon.com Review
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 bestsellers, then one must ask, Why aren't there more millionaires? In Fooled by Randomness, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a professional trader and mathematics professor, examines what randomness means in business and in life and why human beings are so prone to mistake dumb luck for consummate skill. 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. 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. 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. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards
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