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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section
Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Edition: 2
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 081297381X



The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"



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A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we--especially the experts--are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, " On Robustness and Fragility," which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. *2nd Edition, With a new essay: "On Robustness and Fragility"
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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: 'On Robustness and Fragility'


A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we--especially the experts--are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, ' On Robustness and Fragility,' which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. *2nd Edition, With a new essay: 'On Robustness and Fragility'

Random House Trade Paperbacks. Good. 2010. Paperback. 9780812973815 . Has some general cover wear with corner fold with no writing or highlighting found. ; 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.2 Inches; 480 pages; A black swan is an event positive or negative that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them. In this second edition Taleb has added a new essay On Robustness and Fragility which offers tools to navigate a

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 har





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