Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Arabic: نسيم نيقولا نجيب طالب, alternatively Nessim or Nissim, born 1960) is a Lebanese-born essayist, scholar and former practitioner of mathematical finance. He is best known as the author of the 2007 book (completed 2010) The Black Swan.
Taleb has had three distinct careers, built around what he calls "epistemic limitations and constraints": probability, uncertainty and the fragility of human knowledge, which he packaged as the theory of Black Swan Events. Firstly, he is a bestselling author with 2.7 million copies sold in 31 languages. Secondly, he is a university professor in Risk Engineering (Distinguished Professor), a scholar, an epistemologist and a philosopher of science. Finally, he is a former senior Wall Street trader, risk expert, and practitioner of mathematical finance.
Taleb has been critical of the finance industry and has been credited with making warnings regarding financial crises and making a fortune out of the 2008 crisis. Taleb is an...More from Freebase
Bloomberg Businessweek: Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next 'Black Swan', July 26, 2010. In a new edition of The Black Swan, author Nassim Nicholas Taleb warns against depending "on financial assets as a repository of value" ...
Harvard's Niall Ferguson recently told Bloomberg that the US Treasury bond vigilantes will eventually hit the United States (video) and the Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, thinks Government deficits could be the next "black swan" ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-born essayist, scholar and former practitioner of mathematical finance. He is best known as the author of the 2007 book (completed 2010) The Black Swan. Taleb has had three distinct careers, ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb author of The Black Swan recently said that "while most human thought (particularly since the enlightenment) has focused us on how to turn knowledge into decisions, my new mission is to build methods to turn lack ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Posted by gyrovague on July 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment. By Mehdi Hasan. “Cameron is extraordinary. He's the only thing we have left”. Many people believed that the banking crisis was unforeseeable, ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a nice article at the NewStatesman. Debt implies a strong statement about the future, and a high degree of reliance on forecasts. … debt is dangerous if you are overconfident about the future and are Black ...
After completing my book The Black Swan, I spent some time meditating on the fragility of systems with the illusion of stability. This convinced me that the banking system was the mother of all accidents waiting to happen. ...
A couple of days ago, I wrote that I was going to take a look at Bruce Mau's Massive Change somewhat seriously (that was where I first came upon the term chaord). Oof. After dutifully allotting some real time to it today (as opposed to ...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb angry with economists. The interviewer was just a journalist clueless about his ideas but he got them across anyway by ignoring her questions.
This is a very interesting book as it lays out the concept that man is ill equipped to deal with the unknown.
Black Swan???…what the heck is a Black Swan? The 21st Century Supply Chain - Perspectives on Innovative (blog) Black Swan events are described by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book “The Black Swan: The impact of the Highly Improbable”. In his book, Taleb identifies ... |
 New Statesman | Beware those Black Swans New Statesman The bestselling economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that we can't make the world financial system immune to shocks –– but we can make sure it's much more ... and more » |
 Herald Scotland | Nudge, nudge... Herald Scotland The Black Swan Theory, after which the work is named, was coined by Wall Street trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain the existence of unexpected, ... and more » |
The BP Spill as a Black Swan Event RedState (blog) I recommend a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. The BP spill is a textbook example of what Taleb calls a ... and more » |
Pimco Sells Black Swan Protection as Wall Street Profits From Selling Fear Bloomberg For much of the year before Lehman's collapse, Nassim Nicholas Taleb warned bankers that they relied too much on probability models and had become blind to ... Selling fear on Wall Street TODAYonline all 8 news articles » |
Fruit machines are latest installation on shore at Portobello Scotsman The installation takes its title from the Black Swan Theory put forward by Wall Street trader and writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain the impact on ... and more » |
 iBerkshires.com | Say 'Hell No' to a Black Swan Free World Wall St. Cheat Sheet (blog) According to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a Black Swan “is an event with the following three attributes. First, it is an outlier, ... Investor 500: Black swan hunting CanadianBusiness.com (blog) all 3 news articles » |
White Salmon And Black Swans MediaPost Publications The capitalization is critical, because it's not the animal I'm referring to, but the phenomenon identified by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book of the same ... and more » |
 BusinessWeek | Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next 'Black Swan' BusinessWeek Nassim Nicholas Taleb—the book's author, who is also a trader and university professor—has reissued his 2007 best seller in a second edition that includes ... and more » |
Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next 'Black Swan' msnbc.com Nassim Nicholas Taleb -- the book's author, who is also a trader and university professor -- has reissued his 2007 best seller in a second edition that ... and more » |
