Monthly Archives: March 2011

Nassim Taleb to speak at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable

Nassim Taleb, author of ‘The Black Swan’, confirmed to speak at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable

18.03.2011
Share 

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Centre
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
October 19-20, 2011
Geneva, Switzerland — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, philosopher, essayist, statistician, and bestselling author (“The Black Swan”, “Fooled by Randomness”) will be a keynote speaker at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable in Washington, D.C. He will address the participants at the opening conference plenary, titled: Systems, Stability and Sustainability. The panel will explore the benefits for investors and financiers arising from the use of better quality and wider “lenses” that give greater depth, breadth and granularity to their understanding of a wider range of risks, as well as employment of “clocks” which heighten their appreciation of the temporal nature of risks.

Nassim Taleb at Names Not Numbers Symposium

Names Not Numbers Symposium An annual thought leadership symposium. Multimedia
Fragility, Complexity & Society
(mp3) Talk with Q&A
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Former Trader and Author of ‘The Black Swan’
Q&A moderated by Matthew Taylor, RSA

Apollonian-Dionysian: Many attribute the idea of “creative destruction”…

(Apollonian-Dionysian: Many attribute the idea of “creative destruction” to the economist Joseph Schumpeter (not wondering how something deep can come out of an economist), while the more erudite source it to the great K Marx, it is indeed Nietzsche who was first to … with reference to the Dionysian: “creatively destructive” & “destructively creative”. Nietzsche indeed figured out antifragility.