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TALEB, Nassim Nicholas.

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.

"WHAT YOU KNOW CANNOT REALLY HURT YOU": First Edition of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable; Signed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

London: Picador, 2007.

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First edition of this work concentrating on outlier events. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by David Mann. Origami by Cecile De Cat.
"The hubris of predictions—and our perpetual surprise when the not-predicted happens—are themes of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's engaging new book, The Black Swan. It concerns the occurrence of the improbable, the power of rare events and the author's lament that 'in spite of the empirical record we continue to project into the future as if we were good at it. We expect all swans to be white and are shocked when a black swan swims by… In The Black Swan, Taleb proclaims that the unexpected is the key to understanding not just financial markets but history itself" (New York Times).
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