Taleb

But I think Taleb is not as negative as the reviewer suggests.

Non-normal Distributions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Taleb is also pretty useful in explaining the A bias of historians.

The Tug-of-War over Capitalism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

What Taleb is doing on TV is refusing to play that guru role.

Matthew Yglesias » The New Gurus 2009

And as Josh Marshall noted, the vid of the CNBC bubblevision people interviewing Roubini and Taleb is a head-splitter.

Matthew Yglesias » The Case Against New Banks 2009

Maybe Taleb is a good writer and can provide an easy reading of Hayek's papers and books (ask Bryan about this), but I have already read Hayek.

Out of Your Opening Book, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

CNBC having five hosts interrupting each other in order to score points with Roubini and Taleb is like having three guys in the TV baseball booth.

Matthew Yglesias » The New Gurus 2009

But Taleb is impossible to argue with on this subject; every time they raised an objection to his argument, he curtly dismissed them out of hand ….

Matthew Yglesias » The New Gurus 2009

The metaphor as applied by Taleb is dumb; the point that Popper was making about falsifiability was not.

Matthew Yglesias » Slumping for How Long 2009

As a result, Taleb is now the hottest thinker in the world.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the prophet of boom and doom « Isegoria 2008

Taleb is Greek-Orthodox Lebanese and his first language was French, and in his pronunciation the name Niederhoffer comes out as the slightly more exotic Nie derhoffer.

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