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Please vote and do not add books Taleb has not explicitly recommended. If there is a book missing, please leave a comment with a reference. Cheers.
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Please vote and do not add books Taleb has not explicitly recommended. If there is a book missing, please leave a comment with a reference. Cheers.
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Jun 06, 2016 01:28AM
Sure, Nassim Taleb recommending Steven Pinker is like the sun rising in the west...
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Anne wrote: "Sure, Nassim Taleb recommending Steven Pinker is like the sun rising in the west..."https://www.amazon.com/review/R22Y22Z...
Dio wrote: "Surprised to see "Blank Swan" in here? Any idea where he recommended this?"See the links in the description at the top of this list for references. iirc, it was a 5 stars Amazon review.
Taleb said that Nietzsche understood anti-fragility in his book The Birth of Tragedy (1871)... I just added Nietzches's book to this list...
and almost all Tom Holland's non-fiction books such as:In the Shadow of the Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World. New York: Random House. 2012. ISBN 978-1-408-70007-5.
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom. New York: Random House. 2008. ISBN 978-0-307-27870-8.
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West. New York: Random House. 2005. ISBN 978-0-307-27948-4.
Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic. New York: Random House. 2003. ISBN 978-1-400-07897-4.
Based on this source: https://fs.blog/2012/02/book-recommen...This Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson isn't in his list and should be changed to this book Intellectuals in the Middle Ages by Le Goff.
He also recommended this The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence which should be added to this list.
I'm not big on Daniel Kahneman, or Pinker.I think Mandelbrot and Binmore are very good
How many of those 82 are on that blog?
As for Pinker, he likes one book on that blog with 4/5 and thinks two of his others are better
Masoud wrote: "Based on this source: https://fs.blog/2012/02/book-recommen...This Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Margaret Gibson isn't in his list ..."
Thanks for the correction! Done.
That's positively awesome Kenneth!I was always wondering about what his influences or likes were with mathematics and everything else!
A wrote: "Here is a bigger list (1200+ books), if anyone is interested: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...I basically took note of every author or book that ..."
How can I ever thank you for this!
In Skin in the Game (footnote on p. 196), Taleb recommends A History of Private Life, Montaillou Village Occitan, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, and Courtesans and Fishcakes.
A wrote: "Thanks for the feedback! I am glad my compilation has helped someone. I read in two hour chunks, noting down on a piece of paper next to me all the people which the author I am reading mentions. Th..."Hey "A", I was hoping you could make your profile "public" or accept my friend request. I would really love to see the compilation you compiled. It would help immensely! Ciao
On Twitter, Taleb recommends Elements of Information Theory. Here is his tweet (see Taleb's response):
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/11...
The book can be found here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...










