Black Swan. Under the sign of unpredictability. 2nd edition. Taleb N.

Over the last decade, humanity has survived a number of severe disasters, shocks and cataclysms that do not fit into the framework of the most fantastic predictions. A graduate of the Sorbonne and the New York Guru Nassim Taleb calls such unprofitable events black swans. He is convinced: it is they who give the impetus to both the history as a whole and the existence of each individual person. And to succeed, you must be ready for them. Immediately after the release of the Black Swan, the author brilliantly demonstrated his “non-theory” in practice: against the backdrop of the financial crisis, the company Taleba earned (and not lost!) For investors half a billion dollars. But his work is not a textbook on economics. These are the thoughts of an outstanding person about life and how to find his place in it.

in the later-written specialum “On the Secrets of Sustainability”, Taleb gives a witty rebuff to those orthodox economists who took the anti-training of bayonets he created.

The collection of aphorisms Nassim Taleb, which has entered the book, is a brilliant quintessence of his original ideas.