The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

13 hrs. 15 min.

Language Russian

Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Narrator Dmitry Kreminsky

Description

Over just the last decade, humanity has endured a series of the most severe catastrophes, shocks, and calamitous events that can’t be contained within even the most fantastic predictions. A fifty-seven-year-old Lebanese man and Sorbonne graduate, and New York financial guru Nassim Taleb calls such unforecastable events Black Swans. He is convinced that it is precisely these events that give momentum to history as a whole and to the existence of each individual person. And to succeed, you have to be ready for them. Immediately after “The Black Swan” was released, the author brilliantly demonstrated his “non-theory” in practice: amid the financial crisis, Taleb’s company made money (not lost it!) for investors—half a billion dollars. But his work isn’t an economics textbook. It’s the reflections of a very unusual person about life and how to find your place in it.