{"id":5850,"date":"2013-06-25T20:25:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T03:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2013-06-25T20:25:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T03:25:22","slug":"nassim-taleb-the-black-swan-author-in-praise-of-the-risk-takers-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/nassim-taleb-the-black-swan-author-in-praise-of-the-risk-takers-the-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassim Taleb: &#8216;The Black Swan&#8217; author in praise of the risk-takers &#8211; The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a dream. It&#8217;s this: he wants us to celebrate the restaurant owners, the taxi drivers, the market traders and carpenters and all the other risk-takers who put their skin in the game and who drive the economy for the rest of us.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"body \">\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s call it a National Entrepreneur Day,&#8221; declares the author of the best-selling The Black Swan, and have a day devoted to entrepreneurs, because they are the heroes who at times take suicidal risks for the mere survival of the economy: &#8220;Optionality makes things work and grow \u2013 the UK and the US have a fantastic history in risk-taking, in trial and error, without shame in failing and starting again. We need to recover that spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/business\/analysis-and-features\/nassim-taleb-the-black-swan-author-in-praise-of-the-risktakers-8672186.html\">Nassim Taleb: &#8216;The Black Swan&#8217; author in praise of the risk-takers &#8211; Business Analysis &amp; Features &#8211; Business &#8211; The Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a dream. It&#8217;s this: he wants us to celebrate the restaurant owners, the taxi drivers, the market traders and carpenters and all the other risk-takers who put their skin in the game and who drive the economy for the rest of us. &#8220;Let&#8217;s call it a National Entrepreneur Day,&#8221; declares the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contributors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5851,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions\/5851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}