Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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born

January 01, 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon

gender

male

website

http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/

genre

Philosophy, Business & Investing

influences

Sextus Empiricus, Montaigne, Poincare, Popper, Hayek, Mandelbrot

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Taleb was a pioneering trader of complex financial derivatives, and his first major book was a treatise for practitioners. He has since delved into some of the themes that he encountered in that "laboratory" to consider randomness, especially the the epistemology of chance events, more broadly, and his more recent books have sought to make connections between the financial and more general manifestations of these phenomena. He crosses genres by mixing fiction, memoir, and philosophical parables with traditional non-fiction style and references to both humanistic and scientific traditions. See Wikipedia for more details.

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Books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Average rating: 3.79 · 17,282 ratings · 1,915 reviews · 12 distinct works

	The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable 3.74 avg rating — 11,927 ratings — published 2007 — 41 editions	My rating:
	Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 3.97 avg rating — 4,713 ratings — published 2001 — 21 editions	My rating:
	The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms 3.49 avg rating — 434 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options 3.73 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fooled By Randomness & The Black Swan: Two Books In One 3.70 avg rating — 40 ratings	My rating:
	Force Et Fragilitéréflexions Philosophiques Et Empiriques by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Christine Rimoldy (Traduction) 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Antifragility: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2012 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Talentidentification, Selection And Development 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:
	Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	The New Evolution Diet: What Our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Teach Us about Weight Loss, Fitness, and Aging by Arthur De Vany, Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Afterword) 3.78 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

tags: academia , economics , herd-behavior

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“When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

tags: opinions

21 people liked it

“Things always become obvious after the fact”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

tags: philosophy

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