Link to full article: Thetimes.co.uk
Category: Writing
Foreword to Carlo M. Cipolla’s The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
‘A classic’ – Simon Kuper, Financial Times
The five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world.
Since time immemorial, a powerful dark force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world’s most powerful boardrooms to your local pub. This is the immensely powerful force of human stupidity.
Seeing the shambolic state of human affairs, and sensing the dark force at work behind it, Carlo M. Cipolla, the late, noted professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley, created a vitally important economic model that would allow us to detect, know and neutralise this threat: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity.
If you’ve ever found yourself despairing at the ubiquity of stupidity among even the most ‘intellectual’ of people, then this hilarious, timely and slightly alarming little book is for you. Arm yourself in the face of baffling political realities, unreasonable colleagues or the unbridled misery of Christmas day with the in-laws with the first and only economic model for stupidity.
Nassim is back posting on Facebook
Nassim has updated his followers on Facebook regarding his latest work debunking IQ science.
Nasim’s endorsement of Tom Holland’s book
Book cover for Nassim’s next book Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails
Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails
Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications
The 5 volume Incerto (Deluxe Edition) now available for pre-order on Amazon
Get the new 5 volume Incerto set here: https://amzn.to/2Ldtv0F
Paper: Option Pricing Under Power Laws: A Robust Heuristic
Foreword to the M4 Competition
Correlation is not Additive with Some Consequences for Subsamples
How the correlation of subsections will be lower than the total (in absolute value). With implications for “empirical” research.
Link to PDF – https://www.dropbox.com/s…
How Much Data Do You Need? A Pre-asymptotic Metric for Fat-tailedness
Free copy of the paper – https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.05495.pdf