New Releases by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The monograph investigates the misapplication of conventional statistical techniques to fat tailed distributions and looks for remedies, when possible.Switching from thin tailed to fat tailed distributions requires more than "changing the color of the dress". Traditional asymptotics deal mainly with either n=1 or n=?, and the real world is in between, under of the "laws of the medium numbers" --which vary widely across specific distributions. Both the law of large numbers and the generalized central limit mechanisms operate in highly idiosyncratic ways outside the standard Gaussian or Levy-Stable basins of convergence.A few examples:+ The sample mean is rarely in line with the population mean, with effect on "naive empiricism", but can be sometimes be estimated via parametric methods.+ The "empirical distribution" is rarely empirical.+ Parameter uncertainty has compounding effects on statistical metrics.+ Dimension reduction (principal components) fails.+ Inequality estimators (GINI or quantile contributions) are not additive and produce wrong results.+ Many "biases" found in psychology become entirely rational under more sophisticated probability distributions+ Most of the failures of financial economics, econometrics, and behavioral economics can be attributed to using the wrong distributions.This book, the first volume of the Technical Incerto, weaves a narrative around published journal articles.

Prima della scoperta dell''Australia gli abitanti del Vecchio Mondo erano convinti che tutti i cigni fossero bianchi: una convinzione inconfutabile, poiché sembrava pienamente confermata dall''evidenza empirica. L''avvistamento del primo cigno nero è stato quindi una sorpresa; ma non è questo il punto. Il punto è che una conoscenza basata sull''esperienza pregressa è una conoscenza fallace, che ci rende fragili al cospetto dell''infinità di eventi che possono verificarsi. Basta un solo cigno nero per sbriciolare un''asserzione generale ricavata da millenni di avvistamenti di milioni di cigni bianchi. E allora perché ci ostiniamo a basare le nostre vite sulla previsione del futuro e sul controllo dei rischi? Perché continuiamo ad affidarci alle scelte basate sul già noto, come se non sapessimo che l''ignoto esiste e possiamo incontrarlo? Guerre, pandemie, crolli finanziari mondiali: com''è possibile che eventi simili riescano sempre a coglierci impreparati? In Il Cigno nero – ormai un iperclassico della contemporaneità – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, col suo tono scanzonato e provocatorio, ci invita ad abbracciare l''improbabile e accettare, infine, che esso governi le nostre vite. Che dobbiamo pianificare la struttura economica di un paese o la nostra esistenza dei prossimi 5-15 anni, questo è il libro da cui farci guidare.

Pengetahuan tanpa omong kosong. Kecerdasan tanpa sikap pengecut. Keberanian tanpa kelalaian. ilmu matematika tanpa kekutubukuan. Beasiswa tanpa akademisi. kepandaian tanpa kecerdikan. religiositas tanpa ketidaktoleranan. Keanggunan tanpa kelembutan. sosialitas tanpa ketergantungan. Kenikmatan tanpa adiksi. Agama tanpa toleransi. Dan yang paling penting tak ada apa pun tanpa resiko saat mencapai tujuan. Kali ini dengan menggunakan peribahasa Nassim Nicholas Taleb mengajak pembaca untuk merefleksi kehidupan yang telah dijalani. Seperti halnya puisi, peribahasa adalah satu cara di mana pembaca diberi kebebasan untuk menyelami sendiri sebuah gagasan. Karena itulah. dengan bijak Taleb menyuguhkan 383 peribahasa di buku ini untuk menyadarkan kita bagaimana keterbatasan pengetahuan manusia, sering kali mendorong manusia untuk memaksakan suatu fenomena supaya pas dengan pemikirannya. Sinopsis Buku Setiap dari kita cenderung memiliki Ranjang Prokrustes. Prokrustes adalah sosok berjiwa kejam yang menjamu tamunya untuk dibujuk tidur di ranjang miliknya. Jika tubuh tamunya terlalu panjang, ia akan memotong kaki tamunya. Dan jika terlalu pendek, ia akan merentangkan tubuh tamunya. Semua itu semata untuk membuat siapapun pas di atas ranjangnya. Kita ibarat tukang jahit yang membanggakan diri karena bisa membuat pakaian yang benar-benar pas. padahal yang kita ubah adalah tubuh si pemakai. Kali ini. dengan menggunakan peribahasa. Nassim Nicholas Taleb mengajak pembaca merefleksikan kehidupan yang telah dijalani. Seperti halnya puisi, peribahasa memberi pembaca kebebasan untuk menyelami sendiri sebuah gagasan. Karena itulah Taleb dengan bijak menyuguhkan peribahasa-peribahasa di buku ini untuk menyadarkan kita bagaimana keterbatasan pengetahuan manusia sering kali mendorong manusia untuk memaksakan suatu fenomena supaya pas dengan pemikirannya. Detail Informasi lain : - Pengiriman : minimal 1 hari kerja - Cover : Soft Cover - Tebal : 190 Halaman - Tanggal Terbit: 3 Oktober 2022 - ISBN : 9786020632483 - Penulis: Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Penerbit : Gramedia Pustaka Utama - Berat : 0.165 kg - Dimensi : 20 x 13.5 cm

Nassim Nicholas Taleb , auteur van de bestseller De Zwarte Zwaan, gooit vele heilige huisjes omver in zijn meest provocerende en praktische boek ooit: over rationaliteit en risico, kansen en beloning, commercie en efficiëntie, geloof en religie, rechtvaardigheid en verantwoordelijkheid, onzekerheid en de betrouwbaarheid van kennis.'Skin in the game' draait erom of je iets te verliezen hebt. Het houdt in dat je niet let op wat mensen zeggen, maar op wat ze doen en hoe ver ze hun nek uitsteken.https://www.standaardboekhandel.be/p/skin-in-the-game-9789057125805.

The landmark five-book series—all together in one ebook bundle The Incerto is an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision making when we don’t understand the world, expressed in the form of a personal essay with autobiographical sections, stories, parables, and philosophical, historical, and scientific discussions, in non-overlapping volumes that can be accessed in any order. The main thread is that while there is inordinate uncertainty about what is going on, there is great certainty as to what one should do about it. This ebook bundle includes: FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS THE BLACK SWAN THE BED OF PROCRUSTES ANTIFRAGILE SKIN IN THE GAME

Apakah Angsa Hitam pernah ada di dunia? Seperti yang kita ketahui, Angsa hanya berwarna putih. Willem de Vlamingh pernah menemukan Angsa Hitam pada tahun 1697 di Australia bagian barat. Dalam buku The Black Swan: Rahasia Terjadinya Peristiwa-Peristiwa Langka yang Tak Terduga, kita dapat mengetahui tentang hal yang sebelumnya belum kita ketahui. Menurut sang penulis, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, manusia memiliki batasan serius mengenai pengetahuan yang dimiliki. Sinopsis buku Maksud dari Black Swan di sini adalah, kita menganggap bahwa semua angsa itu berwarna putih, padahal ada jenis angsa yang berwarna hitam (Black Swan), dengan kita mengabaikan angsa hitam yang memang jarang terlihat. Karena memang black swan ini spesies langka, yang termasuk hewan endemic. Apa kesamaan antara penemuan roda, Pompeii, kehancuran Wall Street, Harry Potter, dan Internet? Mengapa kita sebenarnya tak perlu mengejar-ngejar bus dan kereta atau membaca koran? Mengapa hampir semua peramal tren ekonomi adalah pembual? Buku ini tentang Black Swan: peristiwa acak yang mendasari hidup kita, dari munculnya buku-buku bestseller hingga bencana dunia. Dampak peristiwa-peristiwa tersebut amat besar, nyaris mustahil diprediksi; namun setelah terjadi, kita selalu berusaha merasionalisasinya. Salah satu contoh Black Swan adalah kejatuhan pasar saham dunia pada 2008—sesuatu yang telah diendus dalam buku ini. The Black Swan menunjukkan kepada kita mengapa kita mesti berhenti berusaha memprediksi segala sesuatu dan justru mengambil keuntungan dari ketidakpastian. Daftar isi Bonus dalam paket Informasi lain Lebar : 15 cm Tinggi : 23 cm Berat : 0,8 ISBN : 9786020000000 Sampul: soft cover

Filosofische studie over de betekenis van toeval, onzekerheid, risico en menselijk falen.

The Logic and Statistics of Fat Tails is the definitive source on fat-tailed distribution and an essential technical read for students, accountants and those working in finance.

«Si por la mañana sabes cómo será tu día con alguna precisión, es que estás un poco muerto: cuanta más precisión, más muerto estás.» Cada aforismo incluido en este libro trata sobre un lecho de Procusto: los humanos, frente a los límites de nuestro conocimiento, lo invisible y lo desconocido, resolvemos la tensión al exprimir la vida y el mundo en ideas genéricas, categorías reductivas y términos específicos. Solo al abrazar lo inesperado y aceptar lo que no sabemos, podemos ver el mundo tal como es.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one’s own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life. As always both accessible and iconoclastic, Taleb challenges long-held beliefs about the values of those who spearhead military interventions, make financial investments, and propagate religious faiths. Among his insights: • For social justice, focus on symmetry and risk sharing. You cannot make profits and transfer the risks to others, as bankers and large corporations do. You cannot get rich without owning your own risk and paying for your own losses. Forcing skin in the game corrects this asymmetry better than thousands of laws and regulations. • Ethical rules aren’t universal. You’re part of a group larger than you, but it’s still smaller than humanity in general. • Minorities, not majorities, run the world. The world is not run by consensus but by stubborn minorities imposing their tastes and ethics on others. • You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. “Educated philistines” have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets. • Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find). A simple barbell can build muscle better than expensive new machines. • True religion is commitment, not just faith. How much you believe in something is manifested only by what you’re willing to risk for it. The phrase “skin in the game” is one we have often heard but rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it’s also an astonishingly rich worldview that, as Taleb shows in this book, applies to all aspects of our lives. As Taleb says, “The symmetry of skin in the game is a simple rule that’s necessary for fairness and justice, and the ultimate BS-buster,” and “Never trust anyone who doesn’t have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them.”

В своей новой, резко провокационной и одновременно предельно прагматичной книге неподражаемый Николас Нассим Талеб рассказывает, как важно идентифицировать и фильтровать чушь, отличать теорию от практики, поверхностную компетентность от настоящей. Вы узнаете, что такое рациональность в сложных системах и реальном мире, симметрия и асимметрия и в чем состоит логика принятия рисков. Наполняя новым смыслом привычные понятия, такие как "справедливое общество", "профессиональный успех", "личная ответственность", и не боясь задеть эго признанных кумиров, Талеб развенчивает лицемерные идеи и действия апологетов военного вмешательства, инвесторов рынка ценных бумаг и религиозных проповедников. На примерах Хаммурапи и Иисуса Христа, римских и византийских императоров, Сенеки и Дональда Трампа Талеб показывает, что самое важное качество, объединяющее прославленных героев, беззаветных святых и гениальных бизнесменов, -- не переносить риск на других.

Where the problem is not expert underestimation of randomness, but more: the tools themselves used in regression analyses and similar methods underestimate fat tails, hence the randomness in the data. We should avoid imparting psychological explanations to errors in the use of statistical methods.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes—Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes, updated with more than 50 percent new material—are now together in one ebook bundle. ANTIFRAGILE “Startling . . . richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides.”—The Wall Street Journal Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. What is crucial is that the antifragile loves errors, as it incurs small harm and large benefits from them. Spanning politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine in an interdisciplinary and erudite style, Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. THE BLACK SWAN “[A book] that altered modern thinking.”—The Times (London) A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random and more predictable. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows that black swan events underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives, and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them. FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS “[Fooled by Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther’s ninety-five theses were to the Catholic Church.”—Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Are we capable of distinguishing the fortunate charlatan from the genuine visionary? Must we always try to uncover nonexistent messages in random events? Fooled by Randomness is about luck: more precisely, about how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill—the markets—Fooled by Randomness is an irreverent, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining exploration of one of the least understood forces in our lives. THE BED OF PROCRUSTES “Taleb’s crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems.”—Financial Times This collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses Taleb’s major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical views of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.

Neste livro fascinante, Taleb mostra que, ao contrário do que defende a maioria dos economistas, estamos constantemente à mercê do inesperado. A estes acontecimentos imprevisíveis o autor dá o nome de Cisne Negro (animal que se considerava inexistente até ser visto, pela primeira vez, inesperadamente, na Austrália, no século XVII). Um Cisne Negro é um evento com três características altamente improváveis: é imprevisível, ocasiona resultados impactantes e, após sua ocorrência, inventamos um meio de torná-lo menos aleatório e mais explicável. O sucesso surpreendente do Google foi um cisne negro, assim como o 11 de Setembro. Para Nassim Nicholas Taleb, os cisnes negros são a base de quase tudo o que acontece no mundo, da ascensão das religiões à nossa vida pessoal. Por que não reconhecemos o fenômeno antes que ele ocorra? Parte da resposta, segundo o autor, deve-se ao fato de, em geral, os seres humanos se limitarem a aprender conteúdos específicos em vez de adquirir sabedoria em diversas áreas do conhecimento. Concentramo-nos no que já sabemos e evitamos cada vez mais o desconhecido. Somos, portanto, incapazes de enxergar as oportunidades e nos tornamos vulneráveis ao impulso de sempre simplificar, categorizar e não valorizar quem imagina o impossível. Enquanto isso, grandes eventos surpreendem a todos e transformam a sociedade. Nesta obra, Taleb oferece ferramentas que nos permitem lidar com os cisnes negros e tirar proveito deles. Com análises que transitam em áreas aparentemente distintas - teoria das probabilidades, negócios, ciências cognitivas etc. -, A lógica do Cisne Negro mudará sua visão de mundo.

¿Qué es un cisne negro? Para empezar, es un suceso improbable, sus consecuencias son importantes y todas las explicaciones que se puedan ofrecer a posteriori no tienen en cuenta el azar y sólo buscan encajar lo imprevisible en un modelo perfecto. El éxito de Google y You Tube, y hasta ell 11-S, son “cisnes negros”. Para Nassim Nicholas Taleb, los cisnes negros son parte integrante de nuestro mundo, desde el auge de las religiones hasta los acontecimientos de nuestra vida personal. ¿Por qué no podemos identificar este fenómeno hasta que ya ha sucedido? Según el autor, ello se debe a que los humanos nos empeñamos en investigar las cosas ya sabidas, olvidándonos de lo que desconocemos. Ello nos impide reconocer las oportunidades y nos hace demasiado vulnerables al impulso de simplificar, narrar y categorizar, olvidándonos de recompensar a quienes saben imaginar lo “imposible”. Elegante, sorprendente, y con reflexiones de alcance universal, El cisne negro transformará nuestra manera de mirar el mundo. Taleb es un escritor ameno, ingenioso e irreverente, con un profundo conocimiento de temas tan dispares como la ciencia cognitiva, el mundo de los negocios y la teoría de la probabilidad. De hecho, El cisne negro es auténtico cisne negro en sí mismo.

È vero che sono i più capaci ad avere successo nella vita? --- Questo libro parla della fortuna. O meglio, del ruolo che gioca il caso nella nostra vita in generale, nei nostri affari in particolare. Ma parla anche di quella fortuna che, non essendo percepita come tale, viene scambiata per abilità: una confusione presente in molteplici campi, dalla scienza alla politica, dall'arte alla finanza. Quante volte abbiamo visto un idiota baciato dalla fortuna trovarsi nel posto giusto al momento giusto, dimostrazione vivente della «sopravvivenza del meno adatto»? Individui del genere attraggono seguaci devoti che credono ciecamente in quello che loro spacciano per metodo. «Giocati dal caso» affronta in modo affascinante e divertito alcune conseguenze che possono derivare da questo equivoco, mentre fa cadere come birilli i nostri pregiudizi sull'idea di successo e di sconfitta.

Questo libro offre una nuova visione del mondo. La prospettiva che cambierà le nostre idee sulla società e ispirerà le nostre scelte quotidiane. Ci aiuterà a comprendere come il nostro corpo si protegge dalle malattie e le specie viventi si evolvono, come la libertà d'impresa crea prosperità e il genio si trasforma in innovazione. Ci farà scoprire che se viviamo più a lungo non è la medicina che dobbiamo ringraziare, che meno dati sono disponibili e più un'analisi sarà accurata, e che il naufragio del Titanic ha salvato molte più persone di quante ne abbia fatte annegare. La chiave di tutto è l'antifragilità. Sappiamo che la nostra incapacità di comprendere a fondo i fenomeni umani e naturali ci espone al rischio degli eventi inaspettati. Ma l'incertezza non è solo una fonte di pericoli da cui difendersi: possiamo trarre vantaggio dalla volatilità e dal disordine, persino dagli errori, ed essere quindi antifragili. Il robusto sopporta gli shock e rimane uguale a se stesso, l'antifragile li desidera, e se ne nutre per crescere e migliorare. Medicina, alimentazione, architettura, tecnologia, informazione, politica, economia, gestione dei risparmi: sono solo alcuni dei campi di applicazione pratica in cui Nassim Nicholas Taleb ci accompagna, con l'ironia e la verve polemica che lo hanno reso celebre. Nell'ottica dell'antifragilità, le città-stato funzionano meglio degli stati-nazione, la spontanea confusione dei suk è preferibile all'eleganza formale dei mercati regolati, le grandi corporation sono una minaccia per la società, tanto quanto i piccoli imprenditori ne rappresentano la forza. E per raggiungere un maggior benessere personale e collettivo non è necessario fare sempre di più: meno è meglio. Attingendo da uno sconfinato repertorio di episodi storici, fenomeni biologici e naturali, curiose esperienze personali, unendo la logica matematica alla scettica saggezza degli antichi e allo spirito pratico dell'uomo della strada, Taleb è riuscito nel tentativo di creare una guida eclettica, scanzonata e iconoclasta per orientarsi in un mondo dominato dal caos, il mondo del Cigno nero.

Antifragile 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 Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls “antifragile” is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call “efficient” not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? The book spans innovation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear. Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb’s message is revolutionary: The antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it. Praise for Antifragile “Ambitious and thought-provoking . . . highly entertaining.”—The Economist “A bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, and error . . . It may just change our lives.”—Newsweek

The Bed of Procrustes 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 Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game. By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb’s view of modern civilization’s hubristic side effects—modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery. Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized. With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness. “Taleb’s crystalline nuggets of thought stand alone like esoteric poems.”—Financial Times

Tre anni dopo la pubblicazione del "Cigno nero", un "racconto filosofico" acclamato in tutto il mondo, Nassim Nicholas Taleb fa il bilancio della vita del suo libro. L'idea talebiana del Cigno nero ha conquistato milioni di lettori e fecondato la ricerca in campi molto diversi, dalla filosofia alla statistica, dalla sociologia alla psicologia, agli studi sul clima, alla medicina. Meno feconda questa idea si è rivelata invece in economia, l'area più immediatamente vicina agli interessi dell'autore. Sulla crisi del 2008, e sugli economisti che dovrebbero analizzarla e curarla, Taleb si sofferma in questo nuovo libro, con annotazioni che hanno il sapore dell'ironia e dello scetticismo. E, ancora una volta, ribalta i sedicenti "esperti di rischi" che in questi tre anni hanno risposto all'autore con ostilità, dimostrando la loro inguaribile cecità ai Cigni neri. "Robustezza e fragilità" riassume tre anni di vita di un'idea forte, in grado di modificare i nostri paradigmi mentali; tre anni che hanno anche trasformato, in meglio, la vita dell'autore. Taleb ha incontrato filosofi, scrittori, scienziati, uomini di stato, lettori comuni e persino buoni economisti, si è confrontato con loro, ne ha ascoltato conferme e obiezioni, ha visto crescere e svilupparsi la sua idea nel mondo. Da questi incontri è nato "Robustezza e fragilità", il suo nuovo racconto filosofico dove, fornendoci una carta topografica dell'Estremistan, Taleb ci insegna come muoverci in un mondo dominato dal caso e dall'incertezza.

The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’t know, now with a new section called “On Robustness and Fragility.” A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.” For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Taleb will change the way you look at the world, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, “On Robustness and Fragility,” which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a landmark book—itself a black swan.

Analyse dessen, was eigentlich nie passieren dürfte, was jedoch ständig geschieht und unser Leben gewaltig beeinflusst, was mithilfe statistischer Modelle permanent aus unserem Denken ausgeblendet wird.

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. Now in a striking new hardcover edition, 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. PRAISE FOR FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS: Named by Fortune One of the Smartest Books of All Time A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year “[Fooled by Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther’s ninety-five theses were to the Catholic Church.” –Malcolm Gladwell, author of Blink “The book that rolled down Wall Street like a hand grenade.” –Maggie Mahar, author of Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982—1999 “Fascinating . . . Taleb will grab you.” –Peter L. Bernstein, author of Capital Ideas Evolving “Recalls the best of scientist/essayists like Richard Dawkins . . . and Stephen Jay Gould.” –Michael Schrage, author of Serious Play: How the World’s Best Companies Simulate to Innovate “We need a book like this. . . . Fun to read, refreshingly independent-minded.” –Robert J. Shiller, author of Irrational Exuberance “Powerful . . . loaded with crackling little insights [and] extreme brilliance.” –National Review