Part of the category Business, this book was published by Penguin Books in 2008
Synopsis
The Black Swan is one of the books in the INCERTO series.
It is considered as a landmark book in the Incerto series, which is an investigation of luck, opacity, uncertainty, human error, risk, probability, and decision making. For the author, black swans form the basis of everything from the rise of religions to things in people's personal lives.
The Black Swan covers various subjects related to knowledge, ways of life, and aesthetics. It uses fictional elements to make a point. It focuses on the impact of unpredictable events and the tendency of human beings to find explanations and reasoning for such events. The book also contains anecdotes from the author's life.
About the Author
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a scholar, an eassayist, a philosopher, and a statistician. He has devoted his life to the aspects and problems of probability, uncertainty, and knowledge. He is presently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering in Polytechnic Institute at New York University. Decision making under opacity is his main subject matter.
The other books in his Incerto series are Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes. Buy Taleb's books on Snapdeal.
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