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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Author of the Incerto series and a former derivatives trader who revolutionized our understanding of luck, probability, and black swan events.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Sam Altman
Sam Altman
Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio

Read by Barack Obama, Sam Altman, Ray Dalio and 8 others

byDaniel Kahneman
2011498 Pages

This is a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud.

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The (Mis)Behavior of Markets

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The (Mis)Behavior of Markets

A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward

byBenoit B. Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson
2004328 Pages

I closed this book feeling that it was the first book in economics that spoke directly to me.

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Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Modelling Extremal Events: for Insurance and Finance

Stochastic Modelling and Applied Probability

byPaul Embrechts, Claudia Klüppelberg, Thomas Mikosch
1997648 Pages

Indispensable. The mathematics of extreme events... this book is the bible for the field.

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Statistical Models: Theory and Practice

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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byDavid A. Freedman
2009442 Pages

This book is outstanding... it uses the real-life situation to critique the statistical model and show you the limit of statistic.

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