A reader has sent in a copy of Nassim’s Lecture notes from when he was teaching a course at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA in 2005. The course/lecture series are titled: Randomness, Decisions, and Human Nature (SOM 797R – SYLLABUS).
Unfortunately all the links within the PDF are missing, if anyone has a copy with all the working links to studies, research papers, books, articles, images, etc, please let us know!
Dear Nassin Taleb,
I have read your book, the black swan. Then I burn my probabilistics and statistics book I read at the university times.
Related books as per your interesting book, have read Ilya Prigogine Chemist nobel price book about from chaos to order (related to my chemical engineer studies), and reading Kahneman “thinking fast and slow.”
Let me tell, that it is interesting to see in youtube your interviews with Kanehman, Neil Fergusoon and all the people you mention in your book.
As your book is very important for different countries worldwide, what about futurre interviews with Tomas Sowel, or Michael Gelb about Davinci (he has answered my emails a couple of times), Reviel Netz and William Noel (“The Archimedes codex”), John Kehow (“mind Power”) and modern Carl Joung(Brian Weiss); as all of them share several of your ideas, to rediscover history from ancient times and find the black swans of the past to be prepare for the future ones..
Just one point for a discussion such as the ancient greeeks, your opinion against globalization denies the black swan metaphor, Would you say the same opinion of yours about universalisation.
Let´s discuss that point if you have the time to answer it.because depends on the language your using for thinking it. By the way, spanish is modern latin, of the New Word that change it history. Thats the language that we talk in Colombia, where there is a big libanese colony, by the way.
In fact, please let me tell you, that as we are in Colombia, recentley russian army fighterts flew over colombian territory, so that remembers me your history about Libanon.
I will add, that right now, expresident Alvaro UribeVelez is in the USA. He is a very smart person open to your ideas, who made today a presentation at Ritz theater in Elizabeth, New Jersey. EE.UU. He is indeed a Black Swan.
To summarize, myself and many millions of other people of the same age like you, would like you to come to Colombia where you will see many of your, fans that agrees that the real universe is the onw your talking about, the black swan.
Regards,
Jorge Garcia
Chemical Engineer
I tried to source the missing links in the pdf and was able to find many of them. The following is my best guess and doesn’t include any private links or links to NNT’s books, just links to various papers referenced throughout the PDF. I tried to source the information from university websites whenever possible.
Module 2
Unskilled and Unaware of It https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~suh/metacognition.pdf
Tiesska-Zielonki (just an article on) http://www.minyanville.com/business-news/the-economy/articles/weather-forecasters-financial-analysts-economists-nate/9/10/2012/id/43858?page=full
herding by prominent econophysicist Bouchaud http://www.proba.jussieu.fr/pageperso/ramacont/papers/herd.pdf
Module 3
Data-Snooping Biases in Tests of Financial Asset Pricing Models: http://finance.wharton.upenn.edu/~rlwctr/papers/8921.PDF
A Reality Check for Data Snooping: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~bhansen/718/White2000.pdf
Data Snooping Technical Trading Rule Performance, and the Bootstrap: http://consolidation.technicalanalysis.org.uk/SuTW97.pdf
Module 4
How the Finance Gurus Get Risk All Wrong: http://www.efmoody.com/mandelbrot.html
Module 5
Kahneman’s Nobel lecture: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2002/kahnemann-lecture.pdf
Thaler’s mental accounting: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/Richard.Thaler/research/pdf/MentalAccounting.pdf
Lowenstein & Prelec Neuroeconomics: http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~camerer/JELfinal.pdf
Caveman Economics: http://www.meangenes.org/caveman/Caveman_files/frame.htm
Module 6
On the nonobservability of probability: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/knowledge.pdf
Coval & Shumway: “Expected Options Returns http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=189840
Why are Put Options So Expensive: http://tigger.uic.edu/~olegb/research/mremp.pdf
Risk Aversion or Myopia: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F227351035_Risk_Aversion_or_Myopia_Choices_in_Repeated_Gambles_and_Retirement_Investments%2Ffile%2Fd912f50eb07386c9d5.pdf&ei=knj6UuKUDuS60AHLz4HwBg&usg=AFQjCNHymYluZSY7wHrVoXqNnWAEWPV8XQ&bvm=bv.61190604,d.b2I
Module 7
The Economics of Superstars: http://users.polisci.wisc.edu/schatzberg/ps616/Rosen1981.pdf
On a Class of Skew Distribution Functions: http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/1955/simon1955.pdf
Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: http://www.columbia.edu/~tad61/CA_AR112205.pdf
Talent and the Winner-Take-All Society: http://prospect.org/article/talent-and-winner-take-all-society
Module 10
“long tail” article by Chris Anderson: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html
Module 12
HAPPINESS: HAS SOCIAL SCIENCE A CLUE?: http://cep.lse.ac.uk/events/lectures/layard/RL030303.pdf
Module 13
Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit http://www.econlib.org/library/Knight/knRUP.html
Appendix 1
Barabási, A.-L. and R. Albert. 1999. Emergence of scaling in random networks,
http://www.barabasilab.com/pubs/CCNR-ALB_Publications/199910-15_Science-Emergence/199910-15_Science-Emergence.pdf
Barabási, Albert-László and Eric Bonabeau. 2003. Scale-free networks
http://www3.nd.edu/~networks/Publication%20Categories/01%20Review%20Articles/ScaleFree_Scientific%20Ameri%20288,%2060-69%20(2003).pdf
Faloutsos, M., P. Faloutsos, and C. Faloutsos. 1999. On Power-Law Relationships of the Internet Topology
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/teaching/NetworkedLife/power-internet.pdf
Lotka, Alfred J., 1926. The Frequency Distribution of Scientific Productivity
http://listserv.utk.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A3=ind0709&L=sigmetrics&P=52661&E=2&B=–%3D-YUefx%2F0auEG8%2B29U7Cdc&N=Lotka+1929.pdf&T=application%2Fpdf
Merton, R. K., 1968. The Matthew effect in science
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/merton/matthew1.pdf
Mitzenmacher, Michael. 2003. A brief history of generative models for power law and lognormal distributions
http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/research/papers/others/2003/mitzenmacher2003a.pdf
Price, D. J. de Solla, 1965. Networks of scientific papers
http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/papers/pricenetworks1965.pdf
Price, D.J. de Solla. 1976. A general theory of bibliometrics and other cumulative advantage processes
http://garfield.library.upenn.edu/price/pricetheory1976.pdf
Watts, D. J., 2003. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
http://pdf.aminer.org/000/003/790/six_degrees_the_science_of_a_connected_age.pdf
Simon, Herbert A., 1955. On a class of skew distribution functions. Biometrika 42:425-440
http://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/Simon55Skewdistribution.pdf
Vogelstein, Bert, David Lane and Arnold J. Levine, 2000. Surfing the p53 network.
http://www.academia.edu/3126304/Surfing_the_p53_network
Willinger, W., D. Alderson, J.C. Doyle, and L. Li. 2004. A pragmatic approach to dealing with high variability measurements.
http://faculty.nps.edu/dlalders/docs/p139-willinger.pdf
Yule, G. 1925. A mathematical theory of evolution, based on the conclusions of Dr. J. C. Willis
http://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Network-course-readings/Yule.pdf