Name: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility
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Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
ISBN: 9781400063512

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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility

Type

Physical Book

Author

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Publisher

Random House

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6 x 15.5 x 4.3 cm

Weight

0.73 kg.

ISBN

1400063515

ISBN13

9781400063512

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: On Robustness and Fragility"

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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb es un ensayista, matemático, filósofo y exoperador de bolsa nacido en Líbano en 1960. Es ampliamente conocido por sus ideas sobre la incertidumbre, el riesgo y la toma de decisiones en contextos impredecibles. Su formación académica combina finanzas, matemáticas y filosofía, y ha enseñado en universidades como NYU y Oxford.

Taleb alcanzó fama internacional con su libro "The Black Swan" (El Cisne Negro), donde introduce el concepto de eventos altamente improbables pero de gran impacto, que suelen ser racionalizados solo después de ocurridos. Esta obra forma parte de su serie filosófica-práctica titulada Incerto, que también incluye Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, entre otros.

Su pensamiento desafía muchas ideas tradicionales de probabilidad y estadística, especialmente en lo que respecta a modelos predictivos en economía y finanzas. Promueve una visión del mundo donde la exposición a la volatilidad y al desorden —cuando se gestiona bien— puede fortalecer a personas, organizaciones e incluso sociedades.

Además de su producción intelectual, Taleb es conocido por su estilo directo, polémico y crítico con el pensamiento académico convencional, los expertos que no arriesgan nada ("sin piel en el juego") y el exceso de confianza en modelos teóricos alejados de la realidad.

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