Monthly Archives: January 2011

Nassim N. Taleb Home & Professional Page

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From NNT’s Home Page.

MY ACTIVISM
To “robustify” society against Black Swans across domains.
Conversation
with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron on
how
to robustify society
and Rahul Ghandi about farmers' fragility & suicides. In Congress discussing Bank
Risk Management
, Hyperinflation
& Fiscal Stimulus
(video), The
U.K. Tories and The Black Swan
(Video), The King of Sweden’s
Bonham declaration
and begging for the termination
of the economics “Nobel”
.
On literature (conversation
with Rolf Dobelli) .
Best article (Guardian) on why Big Will Fail.

Technical Papers Expanding on The Black Swan and The Fourth Quadrant

( Current works by other researchers using the ideas as a
starting point). For references in books, see here.

 

SPECIAL ISSUES of ACADEMIC JOURNALS

International Journal of Forecasting, 2009 — Decision Making under
Low Levels of Predictability – Articles by Makridakis, Gigererenzer, Taleb,
Goldstein, etc.

The American Statistician, 2007, Black Swan Articles  –Brown, Lund, Wesfall, Hilbe, and
Taleb

Critical  Review Black
Swan Symposium, 2010,  Blyth,
Callahan, Jervis (some idiot), and Runde

 

 

BOOK LENGTH WORKS

Lecturing Birds on Flying 
Pablo Triana, Wiley 2009

The Blank Swan, The End of Probability   Elie Ayache, Wiley 2010

The Art of Credit Derivatives: Demystifying the Black Swan , Joao
Garcia & Serge Goossens. Wiley 2010

On the Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile  Michael Allen (on the Casanova problem in the publishing
industry)

Informing Business: Research and Education on a Rugged Landscape T.
Grandon Gill 2010

Leuko Kotsyfi, Mauro Karavi, M. Androulakis, Athens, 2010

 

 

MEDICINE & HEALTH CARE

It’s the Unknown Unknowns That Matter , AJ Senagore – Diseases
of the Colon & Rectum
, 2010

Flash Crashes, Bursts, and Black Swans: Parallels Between Financial
Markets and Healthcare System
s BJ West… – Journal of Nursing
Administration, 2010