| Description |
1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Santa Marina -- SPITZ -- MUTUA MULI -- Cost-Effective Risk Mitigation -- Part One What Comes First -- Chapter 1 At War with Luck -- Written in Blood -- Probing Bets -- What's a Safe Haven? -- The Great Dilemma -- First Principles -- Modus Tollens -- Deductive Dice -- Chapter 2 Nature's Admonition -- The Swiss Family Bernoulli -- The Saint Petersburg Paradox -- Emolumentum Medium -- The Geometric Average -- The Other Saint Petersburg Paradox -- Concavity of Curve -- The Logarithmic Rhine Falls -- 3 The Eternal Return |
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An Existential Imperative -- Into the Multiverse -- Dice with Schrödinger's Demon (N =∞) -- Dice with Nietzsche's Demon (N = 1) -- The Hustle of Non-Ergodicity -- Magic Trick or Math Trick? -- Side Bets -- A Glimpse of Treasure -- Part Two What Comes After -- Chapter 4 A Taxonomy -- Essentialism -- More Different Than Alike -- Phenotypes -- Risk-Mitigation Irony -- Imposters -- The Dogma of Diversification -- Inductive Dice -- Chapter 5 Holism -- The Cuckoo in the Clock -- Keeping Both Eyes -- Clinical Trials -- The Cost-and-Effect Relationship -- Reshuffling -- Agnosticism -- Offensive Defense |
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A Narrow, Broken Window Frame -- Looking Down the Track -- The Great Pirates -- Chapter 6 Bold Conjectures -- Epistemology -- Neptune or Vulcan? -- Cash Is King -- Go with the Flow -- All That Glitters -- The Safe Haven Frontier -- Whistling Past the Graveyard -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- EULA |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
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| ISBN |
9781119402527 |
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1119402522 |
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