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Nassim nicholas taleb, the bestselling author, trader and academic has criticised those who describe the ongoing covid19 pandemic as a black swan and condemned the us government s recent stimulus measures. Not all swans are white, and not all events, no matter what the experts think, are predictable. The author famous for the black swan is a bit of a black swan himself an unexpected phenomenon arising from the collision of several arcane disciplines and. The black swan 363 merely throwing together random materials only to be shocked that the resul t could, for instance, be used to get around town more rapidly. She shared, with a girlfriend, a mansion in new york city, one that. I have read his other books and they are all good but antifragile is the synthesis of all of his ideas. Taleb has made his living and a small fortune, now transformed into a large fortune by the 2008.
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Taleb shows that black swans, like 911, cannot be foreseen and have an immeasurable impact. Russianbritish philosopher isaiah berlin popularised the idea that writers and. Apr 17, 2007 the black swan is a landmark bookitself a black swan. Though not the first person to use the term, talebs book popularized black swan theory regarding rare outlier events and problems with prediction.
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