Nassim Taleb

Nassim Taleb

Finance & Investing

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader, and risk analyst, whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty. He is the author of the Incerto series of books, including Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, and Antifragile. Based on his recommendations, Taleb seems to have wide-ranging interests, from food to philosophy to science.

80 books recommended 5 books authored

Written by Nassim Taleb

Books Recommended by Nassim Taleb 80

The Practice of Natural Movement

The Practice of Natural Movement

by Erwan Le Corre

"Excited to find in my mailbox The Practice of Natural Movement."

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Perilous Interventions

Perilous Interventions

by Hardeep Singh Puri

"Should be mandatory reading to every student and practitioner of foreign affairs."

Blueprint

Blueprint

by Nicholas A. Christakis

"Excited to get Blueprint as I am trying to go deeper into the notion of fractal (multiscale) localism & see what's wrong w/my thesis"

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Idea Makers

Idea Makers

by Stephen Wolfram

"Excellent! Only read on mathematicians by insiders."

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Scale

Scale

by Geoffrey West

"Will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four."

The Misbehavior of Markets

The Misbehavior of Markets

by Benoit Mandelbrot

"The deepest and most realistic finance book ever published."

Market Wizards

Market Wizards

by Jack D. Schwager

"Twenty years from now, Market Wizards will still be fresh. There is no other like it."

The Invisible Gorilla

The Invisible Gorilla

by Christopher F. Chabris

"The illusion of attention is one of the most important, surprising, and least known flaws in human thinking. This lucid book examines it in detail."

The Dao of Capital

The Dao of Capital

by Mark Spitznagel

"At last, a real book by a real risk-taking practitioner."

Alchemy

Alchemy

by Rory Sutherland

"Wonderfully applicable to about everything in life. Furthermore, it is funny as hell."

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Zero to One

Zero to One

by Peter Thiel

"When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of [this author], read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic."

Adapt

Adapt

by Tim Harford

"A highly readable, even entertaining, argument against top-down design."

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

by Athanasios Papoulis

"I always always recommend Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes."

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

"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."

The Formula

The Formula

by Albert-László Barabási

"[Approaches] the problem of randomness and success using the state of the art scientific arsenal we have."

The Bitcoin Standard

The Bitcoin Standard

by Saifedean Ammous

"Bitcoin is an excellent idea."