Fooled by Randomness
Fooled by Randomness
副标题: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
ISBN: 9780141031484
出版社: Penguin
出版年: 2007-5
页数: 368
定价: 90.00元
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable? This book is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the markets - we hear an entrepreneur has 'vision' or a trader is 'talented', but all too often their performance is down to chance rather than skill. It is only because we fail to understand probability that we continue to believe events are non-random, finding reasons where none exist. This irreverent bestseller has shattered the illusions of people around the world by teaching them how to recognize randomness. Now it can do the same for you.
作者简介
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. Part literary essayist, part empiricist, part no-nonsense mathematical trader, he is currently the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The international bestseller Fooled by Randomness has been published in eighteen languages. Taleb lives (mostly) in New York.
目录
Pt. I Solon's warning
1 If you're so rich, why aren't you so smart? 5
2 A bizarre accounting method 22
3 A mathematical meditation on history 43
4 Randomness, nonsense, and the scientific intellectual 70
5 Survival of the least fit - can evolution be fooled by randomness? 79
6 Skewness and asymmetry 97
7 The problem of induction 116
Pt. II Monkeys on typewriters
8 Too many millionaires next door 139
9 It is easier to buy and sell than fry an egg 149
10 Loser takes all - on the nonlinearities of life 172
11 Randomness and our mind : we are probability blind 182
Pt. III Wax in my ears
12 Gamblers' ticks and pigeons in a box 226
13 Carneades comes to Rome : on probability and skepticism 234
14 Bacchus abandons antony 245
Epilogue : Solon told you so 250
Postscript : three afterthoughts in the shower 253