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082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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302 TAL |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas |
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The Black swan : |
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the impact of the highly improbable / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Nassim Nicholas Taleb. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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New York : |
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Random House Trade Paperbacks, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2010 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xxxiii, 444 p. : |
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ill. ; |
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21 cm. |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
"Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form in the United States ... by Random House in 2007."-T.p. verso.<br/> <br/> Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-429) and index.<br/> |
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Summary: Examines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly, and how humans rationalize the black swan phenomenon to make it appear less random.<br/><br/>Contents: Prologue -- Umberto Eco's antilibrary, or how we seek validation. The apprenticeship of an empirical skeptic ; Yevgenia's black swan ; The speculator and the prostitute ; One thousand and one days, or how not to be a sucker ; Confirmation shmonfirmation! ; The narrative fallacy ; Living in the antechamber of hope ; Giacomo Casanova's unfailing luck : the problem of silent evidence ; The Ludic fallacy, or the uncertainty of the nerd -- We just can't predict. The scandal of prediction ; How to look for bird poop ; Epistemocracy, a dream ; Appelles the Painter, or what do you do if you cannot predict? -- Those gray swans of Extremistan. From Mediocristan to Extremistan and back ; The bell curve, that great intellectual fraud ; The aesthetics of randomness ; Locke's madmen, or bell curves in the wrong places ; The uncertainty of the phony -- The end. Half and half, or how to get even with the black swan -- Epilogue : Yevgenia's white swans -- Postscript essay: on robustness an fragility, deeper philosophical and empirical reflections. Learning from mother nature, the oldest and the wisest ; Why I do all this walking, or how systems become fragile ; Margaritas ante porcos ; Asperger and the ontological black swan ; (Perhaps) the most useful problem in the history of modern philosophy ; Fourth quadrant, the solution to that most useful of problems ; What to do with the fourth quadrant ; Ten principles for a black-swan-robust society ; Amor fati: how to become indestructible.<br/><br/> |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Uncertainty (Information theory)--Social aspects. |
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Forecasting. |
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Books |