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24 alternatives to Fooled By Randomness

The hidden role of chance in life and markets

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Fooled By Randomness launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)▲3
Eric Paley's Fave Book on The Twenty Minute VC
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Fooled by Randomness▲3
A investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, etc.
2015 · fooledbyrandomness.com · its alternatives →
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Predictably Irrational▲96
The hidden forces that shape our decisions
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Little Bets▲89
How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Escape the Expected▲55
The secret psychology of selling to skeptical consumers
2015 · escapetheexpected.com · its alternatives →
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time▲56
A revealing look at Wall Street
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Science of Growth▲84
Why do some startups succeed where others fail?
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics▲97
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Signal and the Noise▲73
Why so many predictions fail - but some don't
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to▲66
Information, networks, complexity to understand Economics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Who Gets What - And Why▲62
The hidden world of matchmaking and market design
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Blockbusters: Hit-Making and Risk-Taking▲54
An argument for why big bets are the surest way to success
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Misbehavior of Markets▲57
A fractal view of financial turbulence
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes▲60
From the life-changing science of behavioral economics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Decoded▲62
The science behind why we buy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Black Box Thinking▲66
Why most people never learn from their mistakes--but some do
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Rational Optimist▲77
How prosperity evolves
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Deep Simplicity▲62
Chaos, complexity and the emergence of life
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Da Vinci Curse▲74
Life Design for People With Too Many Interests and Talents
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Predictably Irrational▲7
Hidden forces that shape our decisions
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Suspicious Minds▲68
Why we believe conspiracy theories
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Luck Factor▲56
How to become a lucky person
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatil▲56
Politics and Economics of the Future
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned▲61
The myth of the objective
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