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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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In December, 2010, the Financial Times had this to say about the book: The book’s title is taken from the Greek myth in which Procrustes fit...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Predictor of Financial Crisis Dispenses Bite-Sized Wisdom from The Takeaway: Early Edition by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)
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Nassim Taleb is the philosopher and former trader who correctly predicted that the mathematical models Wall Street used to measure risk wou...
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