Author
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a former trader, mathematician and essayist, the author of The Black Swan and Antifragile. He has spent many years studying risk, randomness and uncertainty.
Books in Livria
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Why can you trust a pilot but not always a confident expert? Nassim Taleb shows that the world rests on a simple symmetry: whoever makes the decision carries its consequences. You will learn how a stubborn minority…
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Why is the neighbour who earns more not necessarily smarter? Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a former trader, shows how we mistake luck for talent and random noise for meaning. You will learn how to judge success together with…
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Why might a clerk's steady salary be more dangerous than a taxi driver's jumpy income? Nassim Taleb shows that some things break under shocks, others withstand them, and others grow from them. You'll learn how to tell…
- The Black Swan
Why does the very thing you prepared for least end up deciding everything — your career, your money, the fate of a company? Taleb shows that lives and markets are moved not by routine days but by rare shocks that look…