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...It was Nassim Nicholas Taleb who pointed out what Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein had in common....
...— An excerpt from Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is very, very, very known. — How Star Wars helps us understand politics: both Brexit and The Phantom Menace were bad....
...He meant the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s term for the urge to weave a simple story from complex events....
...Tim Harford’s latest book is ‘Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure’ (Little, Brown) To comment, please email magazineletters@ft.com...
...Shakespeare’s Local: Six Centuries of History Seen Through One Extraordinary Pub, by Pete Brown, Macmillan, RRP£16.99 Brown is an unashamed beer nerd but by some happy twist of fate he’s also a fascinating...
...Tim Harford’s new book, ‘Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure’, is published by Little, Brown...
...Tim Harford’s latest book is ‘Dear Undercover Economist’ (Little, Brown) This article is subject to a correction and has been amended...
...Tim Harford’s latest book is ‘Dear Undercover Economist’ (Little, Brown)...
...I was slightly more left of centre then,” he says, stirring sugar into his latte, making elegant swirls of brown and white....
...The audience cheered in one debate when Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan, said it was time to punish bankers by forcing them to hand back bonuses....
...– with Niall Ferguson, Robert Shiller, Nicholas Nassim Taleb Friday ● Scenarios for the global financial system – with Jean-Claude Trichet, Howard Davies, Walter Kielholz, Robert Diamond ● Special address...
...On a YouTube video showing a whiteboard filled with technical analysis, out jumps a slightly bug-eyed, hair-gelled, brown-nylon-jacketed figure....
...- with Niall Ferguson, Robert Shiller, Nicholas Nassim Taleb Friday ● Scenarios for the global financial system - with Jean-Claude Trichet, Howard Davies, Walter Kielholz, Robert Diamond ● Special address...
...And when Mr Brown became prime minister last year, he set up yet another body called the Business Council for Britain to provide him with advice....
...The next big surprise is never far away, and Taleb explains all. Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything By Don Tapscott and Anthony D....
...The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Published by Random House (US), Allen Lane (UK) Taleb’s latest bestseller describes how we underestimate at our peril the...
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