Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sens...(展开全部)

“[Taleb is] Wall Street’s principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther’s ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church.” – Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world.This book is about luck: m...(展开全部)

“[Taleb is] Wall Street’s principal dissident. . . . [Fooled By Randomness] is to conventional Wall Street wisdom approximately what Martin Luther’s ninety-nine theses were to the Catholic Church.” – Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world.This book is about luck: m...(展开全部)

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sens...(展开全部)

n Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed better. It is an empirical fact that highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less intelligent. Students who get the highest scores in third grade generally get lower scores in fourth grade. And yet, it's wrong to conclude...(展开全部)

The Role of the Individual in History was first published in 1898, and occupies a very prominent place among those of Plekhanov's works in which he substantiates and defends Marxism and advocates the Marxian theory of social development. Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918) was one of the leaders of Russian populism and after his emigration to Western Europe in 1880 becam...(展开全部)

维维安娜·泽利泽（Viviana A. Zelizer），美国当代杰出经济社会学家，普林斯顿大学社会学教授，曾任美国经济社会学学会主席。主要研究领域为经济社会学，关注经济的文化与道德维度。著有《道德与市场》《给无价的孩子定价》、《金钱的社会意义》、《亲密关系的购买》、《经济生活：文化如何塑造经济》。

维维安娜·泽利泽（Viviana A. Zelizer），美国当代杰出经济社会学家，普林斯顿大学社会学教授，曾任美国经济社会学学会主席。主要研究领域为经济社会学，关注经济的文化与道德维度。著有《道德与市场》《给无价的孩子定价》、《金钱的社会意义》、《亲密关系的购买》、《经济生活：文化如何塑造经济》。

维维安娜·泽利泽（Viviana A. Zelizer），美国当代杰出经济社会学家，普林斯顿大学社会学教授，曾任美国经济社会学学会主席。主要研究领域为经济社会学，关注经济的文化与道德维度。著有《道德与市场》《给无价的孩子定价》、《金钱的社会意义》、《亲密关系的购买》、《经济生活：文化如何塑造经济》。

维维安娜·泽利泽（Viviana A. Zelizer），美国当代杰出经济社会学家，普林斯顿大学社会学教授，曾任美国经济社会学学会主席。主要研究领域为经济社会学，关注经济的文化与道德维度。著有《道德与市场》《给无价的孩子定价》、《金钱的社会意义》、《亲密关系的购买》、《经济生活：文化如何塑造经济》。