reading notes for 'The Black Swan' by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

pp. xxi, xxv, xxvii, 7,8,9,11,12 (memory), 14 (bond prices), 15, 16 (complexity), 19 (platonic folds), 21, 24, 31, 33, 35(lists), 37 (grey swans), 42

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• Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses many of the ideas from 'The Black Swan' in hist the Long Now seminars about long term thinking » http://s3.amazonaws.com/salt-recordings/salt-020080208-taleb/salt-020080208-taleb_web.mp3

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• SPECIAL ISSUES of ACADEMIC JOURNALS:
  • International Journal of Forecasting, 2009 – Decision Making under Low Levels of Predictability - Articles by Makridakis, Gigererenzer, Taleb, Goldstein, etc.
  • The American Statistician 2007 Black Swan Articles –Brown, Lund, Wesfall, Hilbe, and Taleb
  • Critical Review Black Swan Symposium Blyth, Callahan, Jervis, and Runde

• BOOK LENGTH WORKS
  • Lecturing Birds on Flying Pablo Triana, Wiley 2009
  • The Blank Swan, The End of Probability Elie Ayache, Wiley 2010
  • The Art of Credit Derivatives: Demystifying the Black Swan Joao Garcia & Serge Goossens. Wiley 2010
  • On the Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile Michael Allen (on the Casanova problem in the publishing industry)

• ECONOMICS / STATISTICS / OPERATIONS RESEARCH
  • Quality, Risk and the Taleb Quadrants IBM Quality & Productivity Research, 2009, Ron S. Kenett and Charles S. Tapiero, SSRN
  • A Black Swan in the Money Market, NBER Working Paper No. W13943, Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 33
  • John B. Taylor and John C. Williams, Stanford University and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  • Black Swan or Fat Turkey? Business Strategy Review, Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 34-39, Autumn 2008 Geoff Booth and Elias Mazzawi , SSRN
  • Italian Operational Requirement and Small Banks: The Black Swan Bancaria No. 03-2009 ,Gianfausto Salvadori , Simona Cosma and Giampaolo Gabbi , SSRN
  • Nickels versus Black Swans: Reputation, Trading Strategies and Asset Prices Yale ICF Working Paper No. 08-26 Steven G. Malliaris and Hongjun Yan C Yale University - International Center for Finance and Yale University - International Center for Finance , SSRN
  • Swan-Upmanship Business Strategy Review, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 58-61, Spring 2009, Des Dearlove , SSRN
  • The Financial Meltdown of 2008: Causes and Symptoms Saur Vaishwanar, SSRN
  • Monetary and Financial Stability Axel Leijonhufvud, The Centre for Economic Policy Research, No 14

• DEFENSE
  • COOP Hardening Against Black Swans, Victoria Fineberg, National Defense University, 2009

• PHYSICS/ECONOPHYSICS
  • Dragon-Kings, Black Swans and the Prediction of Crises, Didier Sornette, 2009, ArXiv, arXiv.org > physics > arXiv:0907.4290, In Press, International Journal of Terraspace Science and Engineering (2009

• ENGINEERING
  • Strategies for managing the Consequences of Black Swan Events, Avinash M Nafday, Leadership and Management in Engineering, October 2009

• CLIMATE CHANGE (Applications of the 4th Quadrant)
  • Review of Methodologies and Possible Scenarios For Conducting Vulnerability Assessments to Climate Change , G.J.Nasr, United Nations Economic and Social Commission, 2009

• INSURANCE
  • Black Swans or Black Holes, Gerry Smedinghoff, Contingencies, May-Jun 2008

• EDUCATION
  • In Search of Singular Insight, Gary Thomas, 2009
  • In Search of the Black Swans, Mark Buchanan, Physics World, 2009 (about the publish and perish problem)