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Brooks points to the work of behavioural economists such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain how the classical liberal understanding of human nature at the core of the neo-liberal ideology is fundamentally flawed: Taleb believes that our brains evolved to suit a world much simpler than the one we now face.

The tragic vision and the economic crisis Burke's Corner 2008

Brooks points to the work of behavioural economists such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb to explain how the classical liberal understanding of human nature at the core of the neo-liberal ideology is fundamentally flawed: Taleb believes that our brains evolved to suit a world much simpler than the one we now face.

Archive 2008-10-01 Burke's Corner 2008

The second thing that the crisis reveals is that the nuclear energy endeavor is chock full of what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls "Black Swans": high-impact, hard to predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations.

Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011

Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term Black Swan as a metaphor of something so unexpected in markets and finance that it was generally considered to be statistically impossible, like the birth of a black swan to snow white parent swans.

Stephen Herrington: Swarm of the Black Swans Stephen Herrington 2011

The second thing that the crisis reveals is that the nuclear energy endeavor is chock full of what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls "Black Swans": high-impact, hard to predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations.

Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011

The second thing that the crisis reveals is that the nuclear energy endeavor is chock full of what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls "Black Swans": high-impact, hard to predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations.

Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011

It's a question being raised across the fringe this year as the conventions of theatre-going are put under the microscope: in performances such as the entertaining One Man Show, which at one point asks its audience to cough and eat sweets; and more seriously in White Rabbit Red Rabbit, a slippery play written by the young Iranian playwright, Nassim Soleimanpour, who can't leave Iran.

Audience: witchhunt in the aisles 2011

Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term Black Swan as a metaphor of something so unexpected in markets and finance that it was generally considered to be statistically impossible, like the birth of a black swan to snow white parent swans.

Stephen Herrington: Swarm of the Black Swans Stephen Herrington 2011

Josh Marshall and Felix Salmon flag this bizarre CNBC clip in which Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb go on trying to talk about big picture global crisis stuff and basically the anchors keep peppering them for stock tips.

Matthew Yglesias » The New Gurus 2009

The second thing that the crisis reveals is that the nuclear energy endeavor is chock full of what Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls "Black Swans": high-impact, hard to predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations.

Carl Pope: What Have They Done to the Rain? Carl Pope 2011