Nassim Nicholas Taleb is Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University. He is the author of The Black Swan and, most recently, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Commentaries by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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More Skin in the Game in 2013
NEW YORK – Those who have the upside are not necessarily those who incur the downside. For example, bankers and corporate managers get bonus…
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The Great Bank Robbery
NEW YORK – For the American economy – and for many other developed economies – the elephant in the room is the amount of money paid to banke…
More Skin in the Game in 2013
G M: It is always a pleasure to see Mr Taleb's brilliant combination of ignorance and bias. In this case he is trying to resell to his rabid readers the basic ideas of information economics, as expressed t…
More Skin in the Game in 2013
Waleed Addas: "So long as they please the editors of academic journals, their work is considered fine". I like this very much. That's why in the system of economy under Islamic precepts, one is careful not to make …