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Nassim Taleb Hay Festival 2010 Guardian Video Clip

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

When it comes to economic life, we have evidence that a cab driver knows as much as a political scientist-anyone in Washington- in what’s going to happen tomorrow.
People tend to fit their beliefs to the profession, rather than fit their professions to their beliefs…
…when people’s income depends on certain set of beliefs, they will endorse these sets of beliefs, just for the sake of maintaining their lifestyle.

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Nassim Taleb Issues for Investment Officers Now

Sunday, May 30, 2010

HatTip to Dave Lull.   ai5000 interviews Nassim TalebThis is a link to the streaming video (which wasn’t  playing very well the day I discovered it. Just added the YouTube links). So I made an audio recording of it. You’ll hear a few skips and pops and the last few seconds of the video wouldn’t [...]

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May 2010 Nassim Taleb Interview with Russ Roberts EconTalk.org

Monday, May 3, 2010

This is the third Russ Roberts Econtalk.org interview which took place just before the April 2010 release of the second edition of The Black Swan. (Click arrow to play audio clip) 2010 Taleb on Black Swans, Fragility, and Mistakes. Very interesting to listen to all three interviews in sequence. 2007 2009

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