Fooled by Randomness

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent two decades as a risk taker before becoming a full-time essayist and scholar focusing on practical and philosophical problems with chance, luck, and probability. His focus in on how different systems handle disorder.

He now spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés. In addition to his life as a trader he spend several years as an academic researcher ( Distinguished Professor at New York University's School of Engineering, Dean's Professor at U. Mass Amherst).

He is the author of the Incerto (latin for uncertainty), accessible in any order (Antifragile, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, and Fooled by Randomness) plus a freely available technical version, Silent Risk. Taleb has also published close to 55 academic and scholarly papers as a backup, technical footnotes to the Incerto in topics ranging from Statistical Physics to International affairs. The Incerto has more than 150 translations in 39 languages.

Taleb believes that prizes, honorary degrees, awards, and ceremonialism debase knowledge by turning it into a spectator sport.

""Imagine someone with the erudition of Pico de la Mirandola, the skepticism of Montaigne, solid mathematical training, a restless globetrotter, polyglot, enjoyer of fine wines, specialist of financial derivatives, irrepressible reader, and irascible to the point of readily slapping a disciple." La Tribune (Paris)

A giant of Mediterranean thought ... Now the hottest thinker in the world", London Times

"The most prophetic voice of all" GQ

出版者:Penguin
作者:Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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页数:316
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出版时间:2007-3-29
价格:GBP 6.99
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780141032740
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  • 金融 
  • 思维 
  • 经济 
  • 投资 
  • randomness 
  • 思维工具 
  • finance 
  • economics 
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Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.

Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nicholas Taleb–veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan–has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill.

This book is about luck–or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill–the world of trading–Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives.

The book is populated with an array of characters, some of whom have grasped, in their own way, the significance of chance: the baseball legend Yogi Berra; the philosopher of knowledge Karl Popper; the ancient world’s wisest man, Solon; the modern financier George Soros; and the Greek voyager Odysseus. We also meet the fictional Nero, who seems to understand the role of randomness in his professional life but falls victim to his own superstitious foolishness.

However, the most recognizable character of all remains unnamed–the lucky fool who happens to be in the right place at the right time–he embodies the “survival of the least fit.” Such individuals attract devoted followers who believe in their guru’s insights and methods. But no one can replicate what is obtained by chance.

Are we capable of distinguishing the fortunate charlatan from the genuine visionary? Must we always try to uncover nonexistent messages in random events? It may be impossible to guard ourselves against the vagaries of the goddess Fortuna, but after reading Fooled by Randomness we can be a little better prepared.

Named by Fortune One of the Smartest Books of All Time

A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year

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这本书可以带来清醒。 纵观全书,我觉得主要讲的就是人往往被随机性所愚弄,根据以往或现在发生的事实归纳推断出结论,并以为这是很正确的,其实却忽略了那概率中未发生的事实,而随着时间的推移,那些事实很可能就发生了。对于交易员来说,就是相信自己归纳总结出来的方法已经...  

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这本书可以带来清醒。 纵观全书,我觉得主要讲的就是人往往被随机性所愚弄,根据以往或现在发生的事实归纳推断出结论,并以为这是很正确的,其实却忽略了那概率中未发生的事实,而随着时间的推移,那些事实很可能就发生了。对于交易员来说,就是相信自己归纳总结出来的方法已经...  

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关于数字与概率 我们迟早会了解概率终究是个用来看问题的定性手法,它是怀疑之子。数学主要是用来作为冥思的工具,而不是当作计算工具使用。真正的随机现象看起来并不随机。 讨论概率问题时我不建议会计师参加。对会计师来说,数字就是数字。如果他对概率有兴趣,早就投入...  

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没接触过概率论、统计学的人理应打超过三星以上,这再次体现了打分反映的是书与读书人之间的关系,而非只反映书的质量。 关于存活性偏差,可以概括为,同时在多个概率事件中发生,被当作具有普遍意义,从而产生认识上的偏差。 1旧有的事情因为存活性偏差可能不足以充当预测未...  

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A book for logic, 醍醐灌顶.

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第一本接触到的这种类型的书!!! 引人深思!

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Taleb善于思考,不善于写作。他的爱好还包括deadlift。

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看过几本Taleb的书之后这本就显得没太多新意了。当鸡汤读读还是不错的。

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Just listen while shaken by emotion but not with the coward's imploration and complaints.

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