The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and …

May 11, 2010 · In this revelatory book, Taleb explains everything we know about what we don’t know, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, “On …

Apr 17, 2007 · A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that …

Jan 1, 2008 · 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? What can Catherine the …

Apr 17, 2007 · Bestselling author Nassim Nicholas Taleb continues his exploration of randomness in his fascinating new book, The Black Swan, in which he examines the influence of highly …

Apr 17, 2007 · The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and...

Apr 17, 2007 · The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of …

“The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable” is a groundbreaking book written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former Wall Street trader, philosopher, and statistician. It was …

Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s now popular “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable“ is a book about epistemology, probability, risk, and psychological biases. As such, it’s more of a …