Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ”INCERTO”
Nassim Taleb's five-volume essay, „Incerto”, is a philosophical and practical essay on uncertainty, with 150 translations into 41 languages to date.
- Skin in the Game
- Antifragile
- The Black Swan
- Fooled by Randomness
- The bed of Procrustes
AMONG THE MOST VETERAN TRADERS IN THE WORLD
Nassim Taleb spent 21 years as a risk trader (quantitative trader) closing 650,000 option transactions and examining 200,000 risk reports.
CO-FOUNDED THE REAL WORLD RISK INSTITUTE
As co-founder and lecturer at the institute, he teaches attendees how to make decisions under uncertainty and provides them with a clear-cut way to approach risk.
REPUTED FINANCIAL ADVISOR
Nassim Taleb advised heads of states, top financial institutions, and various central banks on tail risks.
Books by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Skin in the Game
A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and inf... Read More
Antifragile
Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and... Read More
Incerto
Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don't understand, in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumes--Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes, updated with more than 50 percent new material-... Read More
The Bed of Procrustes
A condensed guide to life, Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Bed of Procrustes is an invaluable collection of aphorisms to help you navigate the modern world.Second edition, revised and expandedWhy are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? In this brilliant book Nassim Nicholas Taleb distils his idiosyncratic wisdom to demolish our illusions, contrasting the classical values of cou... Read More
The Black Swan
What have the invention of the wheel, Pompeii, the Wall Street Crash, Harry Potter and the internet got in common? Why are all forecasters con-artists? And, what can Catherine the Great's lovers tell us about probability? This book shows us how to stop trying to predict everything and take advantage of uncertainty. Read More
Fooled By Randomness
Everyone wants to succeed in life. But what causes some of us to be more successful than others? Is it really down to skill and strategy - or something altogether more unpredictable?This book is the bestselling sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. It is all about luck: more precisely, how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Nowhere i... Read More