Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) (Arabic: نسيم نيقولا نجيب طالب) (alternative spellings of first name: Nessim or Nissim) is a literary essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance. Though a specialist in financial derivatives, he is critical of the finance industry. He held a "day job" in a lengthy senior trading and financial mathematics career in a number of New York City's Wall Street firms, before st...
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1960) (Arabic: نسيم نيقولا نجيب طالب) (alternative spellings of first name: Nessim or Nissim) is a literary essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance. Though a specialist in financial derivatives, he is critical of the finance industry. He held a "day job" in a lengthy senior trading and financial mathematics career in a number of New York City's Wall Street firms, before starting a second career as a scholar in the epistemology of chance events to focus on his project of mapping how to live and act in a world we do not understand, and how to come to grips with randomness and the unknown—which includes his black swan theory of unexpected rare events. Taleb has also, in the wake of the economic crisis that started in 2008, become an activist for a "Black Swan robust society".
Taleb's extremely idiosyncratic writing style mixes narrative fiction, often semi-autobiographical, and short philosophical tales, with...
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