Fooled by Randomness

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Collection Business

368 pages, parution le 03/05/2007

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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 intends to change the way you think about business and the world.

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 bestselling 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.

'One of the smartest books of all time' Fortune

'An iconoclastic tour de force ... nothing escapes his Exocets' Evening Standard

'Brilliant' John Kay

'Excellent and thought-provoking ... an entertaining book' Financial Times

'Wall Street's principal dissident' Malcolm Gladwell

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO ( Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness , and The Bed of Procrustes ). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.

L'auteur - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Libano-New-Yorkais, Nassim Nicholas Taleb est écrivain, ancien trader, statisticien et philosophe des sciences du hasard. Depuis 2007, il est l'un des essayistes les plus lus et les plus traduits dans le monde. Il a été le seul à avoir anticipé la crise financière et son ampleur. Taleb se consacre aujourd'hui à l'écriture et enseigne les rapports entre l'épistémologie des probabilités et les sciences de l'incertitude, et notamment la "prise de décision en situation d'opacité" à l'université de New York où il a reçu le titre de Distinguished Professor ainsi qu'au Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne où il est professeur invité. Best-seller traduit en trente-trois langues, son premier ouvrage, Le Hasard sauvage, a paru aux Belles Lettres en 2005. Le Cygne Noir (Les Belles Lettres, 2007) a été vendu à trois millions d'exemplaires dans le monde. Antifragile est le troisième volet de cette philosophie aux vertus tonifiantes.

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Penguin
Auteur(s)	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection	Business
Parution	03/05/2007
Nb. de pages	368
Format	13 x 22
Couverture	Broché
Poids	270g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780141031484