x dismiss this message
Did you know you can edit this page?
-
Sign Into Shelfari
-
Choose something to edit
-
Save your contributions
see page history
Description edit
The word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world. This book is about luck: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Setting & Locations edit
- New York
- Wall Street
- Solon
- United States
- Russia
- New Jersey
- Chicago
- Paris
- London
- Park Avenue
- Rome
- France
First Sentence edit
Nero Tulip became obsessed with trading after witnessing a strange scene one spring day as he was visiting the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Table of Contents edit
Part 1: Solon's Warning
One: If You're So Rich, Why Aren't You So Smart?
Two: A Bizarre Accounting Method
Three: A Mathematical Meditation on History
Four: Randomness, Nonsense, and The Scientific Intellectual
Five: Survival of the Least Fit - Can Evolution Be Fooled by Randomness?
Six: Skewness and Asymmetry
Seven: The Problem of Induction
Part 2: Monkeys on Typewriters
Eight: Too Many Millionaires Next Door
Nine: It is Easier to Buy and Sell Than Fry an Egg
Ten: Loser Takes All - On the Nonlinearities of Life
Eleven: Randomness and Our Mind: We Are Probability Blind
Part 3: Wax in My Ears
Twelve: Gamblers' Ticks and Pigeons in a Box
Thirteen: Carneades Comes to Rome: On Probability and Skepticism
Fourteen: Bacchus Abandons Antony
Epilogue: Solon Told You So
Postscript: Three Afterthoughts in the Shower
Series & Lists edit
This book is in KCPL Discussion Kit (Aug2010). (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Nassim Taleb (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: October 2001
ISBN: 1-58799-071-7
Page Count: 220
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: October 2001
ISBN: 1-58799-071-7
Page Count: 220
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: HG4521 .T285 2001
- Dewey: 123.3
Subjects edit
Popular Tags
See all 50 tags
Amazon Customers Who Bought This Book Also Bought
We’re hiding the errata, movie connections, books that influenced this book, books influenced by this book, books that cite this book and books cited by this book sections. If you would like to add content to them, you must first make them visible.
