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Born in Lebanon, Nassim Nicholas Taleb began his career as a derivatives trader on Wall Street. Despite holding a Wharton MBA and a PhD from the University of Paris, Taleb believes that academia produces insights that are quite removed from the actual world realities and that credentials are affectations.
Taleb is the author of a multivolume essay, Incerto (The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game); the essays cover broad facets of uncertainty. His books have been published into forty-three languages. Taleb has also written about fifty scholarly papers in mathematical statistics, genetics, quantitative finance, statistical physics, philosophy, ethics, economics, and international affairs, around the notion of risk and probability. He is a Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU's Tandon School of Engineering.
- Dynamic Hedging - 1997
- Fooled by Randomness - 2001
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - 2007
- The Bed of Procrustes - 2010
- Antifragile - 2012
- Skin in the Game - 2017
- Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails - 2020
- Incerto 5-Book Bundle - 2021
