The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Language: English

Quality: Like New

Genre: Finance - Business - Economics, Guide, Science,

ISBN: 9780141034591

SKU: BE501645937188

Pages: 435

Description: NOTE: MINOR CREASE ON SPINE. INSIDE CONDITION IS GOOD.// The phenomenal international bestseller that shows us how to stop trying to predict everything - and take advantage of uncertainty What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? Why should you never run for a train or read a newspaper? This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters. Their impact is huge; they're impossible to predict; yet after they happen we always try to rationalize them.