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About the product Over the last decade alone, mankind has experienced a number of severe disasters, shocks and cataclysms that do not fit into the framework of the most fantastic predictions. Nassim Taleb, a 52-year-old Lebanese graduate of the Sorbonne and New York financial guru, calls such unpredictable events Black Swans. He is convinced that it is they that give impetus to both history as a whole and the existence of each individual person. And in order to succeed, you have to be ready for them. Immediately after the release of «Black Swan», the author brilliantly demonstrated his «non-theory» in practice: against the background of the financial crisis, Taleb’s company earned (not lost!) For investors half a billion dollars. But his work is not a textbook on economics. These are reflections of a very extraordinary person about life and how to find your place in it. In his later postscript essay «On the Secrets of Sustainability,» Taleb gives a witty rebuff to those orthodox economists who took hostility to the anti-doctrine he created. The collection of Nassim Taleb’s aphorisms included in the book is a brilliant quintessence of his original ideas. 2nd edition, enlarged.
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