I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and proba…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man. ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, p.245, Random House
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