ByThe Economist Newspaper Limited
Economist interviews Nassim Taleb on the subject of his new book, The Bed of Procrustes.
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BBC News: Tuesday 14th December With Nassim Taleb
Links to BBC radio interview with NNT. HatTip to Dave Lull.
The intellectual guru Nassim Taleb has published
a collection of philosophical aphorisms.
He explores his favourite theme of the limitations of human knowledge.
NNT BBC Radio 12/14/10
Benoit Mandelbrot, 1924-2010
Dave Lull just wrote to inform me that NNT has updated his homepage as an homage to Benoit Mandelbrot. Looking around the net I see no news of Mandelbrot’s passing so must assume that NNT was very close to the situation.
In May, NNT Tweeted, “Mandelbrot’s genius is in achieving aesthetic simplicity without having recourse to smoothness; producing harmony in highly jagged surfaces”
Taleb referred to Mandelbrot as his mentor.
The two were interviewed by NPR in 2008.
Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Taleb NPR Interview, Audio Only.
Paul Solman NPR Interview 2008 10 21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLFkQdiXPbo
with Spanish captions:
Deep Read: Nassim Taleb (The Black Swan Guy) : Planet Money : NPR
by Jacob Goldstein
Here’s the latest Planet Money Deep Read — our occasional series of long-ish interviews with writers and thinkers.
Today, we hear from Nassim Taleb, the former Wall Street trader who published a book called the Black Swan back in 2007. The book was re-issued earlier this year, with a long new section called “On Robustness & Fragility.”
Listen to the Deep Read
[19 min 26 sec]
The book argues that most economic models fail because they don’t take into account rare, high-impact events that wind up driving history. (Taleb calls these events Black Swans.) The argument came out looking pretty good after the 2008 financial crisis.
The new section of the book includes, among other things, a prescription for withstanding a Black Swan.
The short version: Get rid of debt.
PBS Video Taleb & Roubini Examine Potential for Longer Recession
Original Source, PBS Newshour (includes full transcript) HatTip to Dave Lull
Love the ‘Fat Tails’ info graphic. (Note, for some reason sometimes the embed
doesn’t show, if you don’t see a video window on this post, try refreshing the
page. Otherwise, watch it at the original source link above.)
Nouriel Roubini also has a new book you might want to check out.
