num_pages: 366
description: A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them. In this second edition, Taleb has added a new essay, On Robustness and Fragility , which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.
language: English
title: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
titlecomplete: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
characters: Menodotus of Nicomedia, Dan Goldstein, Benoit Mandelbrot, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Robert C. Merton, Francis Bacon (philosopher), Paul Samuelson, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Al-Ghazali, Arnold Toynbee, Frédéric Bastiat, Henri Poincaré, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Michel de Montaigne, Spyros Makridakis, Giacomo Casanova, Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, John Maynard Keynes, Myron Scholes, Plato, Catherine the Great, Yogi Berra, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Mark Spitznagel, Kurt Gödel, Sextus Empiricus, Aristotle (philosopher), Averroes (Ibn Rushd), Amos Tversky, Umberto Eco, Edward Norton Lorenz, Karl Popper, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bertrand Russell, Andrey Kolmogorov, Daniel Kahneman, Friedrich Hayek, Ibn Khaldoun, Robert K. Merton, Karl Marx, Ben Bernanke, Philip Tetlock (1954), Charles Darwin
genres: Business, Philosophy, Psychology, Nonfiction, Science, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 108804
places: Amioun
series: Incerto
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Financial Times Business Book of the Year
category: Shortlist
publisher: Random House