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.
Table of Contents
Pt. I. Solon's warning
1. If you're so rich, why aren't you so smart?
2. A bizarre accounting method
3. A mathematical meditation on history
4. Randomness, nonsense, and the scientific intellectual
5. Survival of the least fit - can evolution be fooled by randomness?
6. Skewness and asymmetry
7. The problem of induction
Pt. II. Monkeys on typewriters
8. Too many millionaires next door
9. It is easier to buy and sell than fry an egg
10. Loser takes all - on the nonlinearities of life
11. Randomness and our mind : we are probability blind
Pt. III. Wax in my ears
12. Gamblers' ticks and pigeons in a box
13. Carneades comes to Rome : on probability and skepticism
14. Bacchus abandons antony
Epilogue : Solon told you so
Postscript : three afterthoughts in the shower
