The black swan : The impact of the highly improbable
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Nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nyskick. Unpredictable, impactful events like the rise of Google and 9/11 are black swans that shape our world. Nassim Taleb explores their significance and offers tools to navigate this unpredictable world. | Random House, 2007 | Pappband med skyddsomslag. 8:o (15-25 cm i höjd)
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781400063512
- Titel
- The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable
- Författare
- Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
- Förlag
- New York : Random House
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-358) and index
Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic ; Yevgenia's black swan ; The speculator and the prostitute ; One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker ; Confirmation shmonfirmation! ; The narrative fallacy ; Living in the antechamber of hope ; Giacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence ; The Ludic fallacy, or the uncertainty of the nerd -- We just can't predict. The scandal of prediction ; How to look for bird poop ; Epistemocracy, a dream ; Appelles the Painter, or what do you do if you cannot predict? -- Those gray swans of Extremistan. From Mediocristan to Extremistan and back ; The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud ; The aesthetics of randomness ; Locke's madmen, or bell curves in the wrong places ; The uncertainty of the phony -- The end. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan -- Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans.
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