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The Black Swan

Paperback • 2010 • English • 1. edition

The Black Swan

By Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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About the book

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 o...Show more

Business and Management

Book details

ISBN

9780812973815

Publisher

Random House US

Published year

2010

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The Black Swan

Format

Paperback

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