stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com - 10/14/2008
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Everyone seems to be hailing Nassim Nicholas Taleb as the man who saw the crisis coming . I have a problem with this. It’s not that what Taleb says about risk is wrong. Quite the opposite. It just strikes me as trivially true. We’ve known for ages that returns are non-Gaussian , that extreme ...
youtube.com - 10/12/2008
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb angry with economists. The interviewer
was just a journalist clueless about his ideas but
he got them across anyway by ignoring her que...
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Angry (video)
guardian.co.uk - 10/9/2008
valueinvestingnews.com - 10/17/2008
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valueinvestingnews.com —
Great video with "Black Swan" author Nassim Taleb
showing his frustration that folks are still not listening
to his warnings about risk modeling.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Vents...
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"Taleb vs Economists"
Economist's View —
Chris Dillow wants help:
Taleb vs economists, by Chris Dillow:
Everyone seems to
be hailing
Nassim Nicholas Taleb as the man who saw the crisis
coming. I have a problem with this. It’s not that what Taleb says about risk
is wrong. Quite the opposite. It just strikes me as trivially true.
We’ve known for ages that returns are non-Gaussian, that extreme events are
more common than a normal distribution predicts, and that risk
can’t
be quantified simply, if at all.
The Black Swan,
then, was just an ...
The Black Swans Attack!
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Stumbling and Mumbling: Taleb vs economists: or me, all this is very troubling. It suggests that what we economists have to learn from Taleb has nothing to do with the nature of risk - we‘ve all known that - but about others’ rationality. We should ditch the assumption - which in a sense is mere courtesy - not only that others are rational but even the weaker assumption that they are nearly so. Perhaps we should indeed regard them merely as “empty suits.” But this is a vastly greater departure from standard practice than anything Taleb has suggested ...
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