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Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable
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Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb


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ISBN: 9780812973815


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  • ISBN: 9780812973815

  • Category: Social Forecasting, Futurology

  • Format: Paperback

  • Publication Date: 2010-05-11

  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable

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 t

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