- Random variables, Business, Chance, Nonfiction
"[Taleb is] Wall Street's principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther's ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church."--Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker
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Contemporary, cool, spare and warm.
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- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Wiley-VCH, Paidós, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- Korean, French, German, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781587991844
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