{"id":2402,"date":"2010-10-28T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"tag:google.com,2005:reader\/item\/b8b19e26458de025"},"modified":"2010-10-28T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:30:15","slug":"economic-sciences-as-mostly-a-procrustean-bed-2010-events-public-events-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/economic-sciences-as-mostly-a-procrustean-bed-2010-events-public-events-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Sciences as Mostly a Procrustean Bed &#8211; 2010 &#8211; Events &#8211; Public events &#8211; Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Shared by  JohnH<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNNT to launch his new book Dec.7 at this free public London School of Economics event. They say podcasts of the event should be available a few days later! You know where to find it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>STICERD public lecture<br \/>\n                  <\/h2>\n<p>\n                    <em>Date:<\/em> Tuesday\u00a07 December 2010\u00a0<br \/>\n                    <em>Time:<\/em> 6.30-8pm<br \/>\n                    <em>Venue:\u00a0<\/em> LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders<br \/>\n                    <em>Speaker:<\/em>\u00a0Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb\u00a0\n                  <\/p>\n<p>\n                    We cover the inapplicability of economic methods statistically, methodologically, empirically, and, mostly, ethically.\n                  <\/p>\n<p>\n                    Nassim Nicholas Taleb is Distinguished Professor of RIsk Engineering, NYU, and\u00a0author of <em>The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms<\/em>. His previous books <em>Fooled by Randomness<\/em> and <em>The Black Swan<\/em> have been published in thirty-one languages.\n                  <\/p>\n<p>\n                    This event marks the launch of Taleb&#8217;s new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Bed-Procrustes-Philosophical-Practical-Aphorisms\/dp\/1846144582\" title=\"The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms \">The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms<\/a><span>|<\/span>.<\/em>\n                  <\/p>\n<p>                  <a name=\"generated-subheading2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>\n                    Ticket Information<br \/>\n                  <\/h2>\n<p>\n                    This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required.\u00a0One ticket per person can be requested from 10.00am on\u00a0Monday 29 November.\n                  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared by  JohnH <\/p>\n<p>NNT to launch his new book Dec.7 at this free public London School of Economics event. They say podcasts of the event should be available a few days later! You know where to find it.<br \/>\nSTICERD public lecture<\/p>\n<p>        &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}