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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Let me share with you a book that I'm reading and that has pleased me particularly. It is "The Black Swan", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, born in Lebanon in Amioun (which is not irrelevant, as we... more

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    5 Stars The Black Swan 25/07/2008
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    Let me share with you a book that I'm reading and that has pleased me particularly. It is "The Black Swan", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, born in Lebanon in Amioun (which is not irrelevant, as we shall see), survivor of the civil war. The author's thesis is that the future is completely unpredictable, all the forecasts that we are bombarded with in our day-to-day are nothing more than charlatanry to confusing us, to say the better. While this statement appears trivial, it is not. Just think of the forecasts we hear every day, such as: The oil price will not to rise Inflation this year will be… ... more

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Type Non-Fiction
Genre Philosophy
Title The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Publisher Allen Lane

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