Companies that become too big,
complicated and debt-ridden should be allowed to “creatively
destruct,” said Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of “The Black
Swan.”
Nassim Taleb Submits a paper on why most people misunderstand the ideas of black swans. This is worth a read.
Click Here To Read Nassim Taleb's Latest On Errors in the Interpretation of The Black Swan
Abstract (via SSRN):
The point of...
(This guest post first appeared at the author's blog)
The ever amusing Nassim Taleb has penned yet another response to his critics. He simply oozes defensiveness, which combined with his arrogance, strong opinions, and popularity, makes him...
Serial killers, bad dogs, late
bloomers, mammograms, the lady who wrote, “If I’ve only one
life, let me live it as a blonde!” -- Malcolm Gladwell can
write engrossingly about just about anything.
Nassim Taleb speaks with David Cameron about Black Swans and economic crises.
Introduction (Via Fora.Tv)
Nassim Taleb is the best-selling author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. So called...
Eugene Fama will have to wait. And your fantasy of seeing Nassim Taleb accept his much-reviled Nobel Prize won't happen either.
Elinor Olstrom and Oliver E. Williamson have split the 2009 Nobel Prize in economics.
We're eager to see the...
We find out at 7 AM tomorrow who wins the Nobel Prize in economics. Fama is the odds-on favorite, but here's Russel Roberts' prediction:
An interesting pairing for tomorrow’s prize would be Robert Shiller and Nassim Taleb. Wouldn’t that be...
It's not often that you listen to an artist talking about the fallacy of only having "one point of view".... For Mungerites this overlaps the man with a hammer syndrome..
Reminder: Why We Favor Narrated Stories from Nassim Taleb (Via...
(I was going to take a week off, but Yves suggested I post this.)
By George Washington of Washington’s Blog.
We have to change our risk models, and not just defer to the big banks' inaccurate models which got us into this mess.
Says...
We have to change our risk models, and not just defer to the big banks' inaccurate models which got us into this mess.
Says who?
Nassim Taleb:
I have been fighting risk models both as a Wall Street trader and as a professor and my worst...
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