Fooled by Randomness

''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: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences.
Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill-the world of business-'Fooled by Randomness' is an irreverent, iconoclastic, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining exploration of one of the least understood forces in all of our lives.