New Releases by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Korean edition of #1 global bestselling book, "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Author poignantly discloses how human nature and the false image of Wall Street caused global financial crisis and explains the 3 characteristics of the Black Swan. Korean translation by Cha Ik Jong. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Essay over de onzin van economische en andere voorspellingen en onze gebrekkige perceptie van de werkelijkheid.

Chinese edition of The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable. The author examines the highly improbable events that have massive impacts. An enlightening book that will change the way we think about the world. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Les cygnes noirs sont des événements aléatoires, hautement improbables, qui jalonnent notre vie ; ils ont un impact énorme, sont presque impossibles à prévoir, et pourtant, a posteriori, nous essayons toujours de leur trouver une explication rationnelle. L''auteur exhorte à ne pas tenir compte des propos des "experts", montre comment cesser de tout prévoir et comment tirer parti de l''incertitude.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The most influential book of the past seventy-five years: a groundbreaking exploration of everything we know about what we don’t know, now with a new section called “On Robustness and Fragility.” A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan; so was 9/11. For Nassim Nicholas Taleb, black swans underlie almost everything about our world, from the rise of religions to events in our own personal lives. Why do we not acknowledge the phenomenon of black swans until after they occur? Part of the answer, according to Taleb, is that humans are hardwired to learn specifics when they should be focused on generalities. We concentrate on things we already know and time and time again fail to take into consideration what we don’t know. We are, therefore, unable to truly estimate opportunities, too vulnerable to the impulse to simplify, narrate, and categorize, and not open enough to rewarding those who can imagine the “impossible.” For years, Taleb has studied how we fool ourselves into thinking we know more than we actually do. We restrict our thinking to the irrelevant and inconsequential, while large events continue to surprise us and shape our world. In this revelatory book, Taleb will change the way you look at the world, and this second edition features a new philosophical and empirical essay, “On Robustness and Fragility,” which offers tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world. Taleb is a vastly entertaining writer, with wit, irreverence, and unusual stories to tell. He has a polymathic command of subjects ranging from cognitive science to business to probability theory. Elegant, startling, and universal in its applications, The Black Swan is a landmark book—itself a black swan.

Destined to become a market classic, Dynamic Hedging is the only practical reference in exotic options hedgingand arbitrage for professional traders and money managers Watch the professionals. From central banks to brokerages to multinationals, institutional investors are flocking to a new generation of exotic and complex options contracts and derivatives. But the promise of ever larger profits also creates the potential for catastrophic trading losses. Now more than ever, the key to trading derivatives lies in implementing preventive risk management techniques that plan for and avoid these appalling downturns. Unlike other books that offer risk management for corporate treasurers, Dynamic Hedging targets the real-world needs of professional traders and money managers. Written by a leading options trader and derivatives risk advisor to global banks and exchanges, this book provides a practical, real-world methodology for monitoring and managing all the risks associated with portfolio management. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the founder of Empirica Capital LLC, a hedge fund operator, and a fellow at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He has held a variety of senior derivative trading positions in New York and London and worked as an independent floor trader in Chicago. Dr. Taleb was inducted in February 2001 in the Derivatives Strategy Hall of Fame. He received an MBA from the Wharton School and a Ph.D. from University Paris-Dauphine.

Trước khi khám phá ra thiên nga đen tồn tại trên đời (ở Úc), người ta vẫn tin rằng tất cả chim thiên nga trên đời đều có màu trắng. Phát hiện bất ngờ này đã thay đổi toàn bộ thế giới quan của nhân loại (về thiên nga). Chúng ta không biết rất nhiều thứ nhưng lại hành động như thể mình có khả năng dự đoán được mọi điều. Và trong cuốn sách này, tác giả Nassim Nicholas Taleb đã đi sâu vào khai thác những sai lầm của tư tưởng cố hữu ấy. Theo ông, “thiên nga đen” là một biến cố tưởng chừng như không thể xảy ra với ba đặc điểm chính: không thể dự đoán, có tác động nặng nề và sau khi nó xảy ra, người ta lại dựng lên một lời giải thích để khiến nó trở nên ít ngẫu nhiên hơn, dễ dự đoán hơn so với bản chất thật của nó. Thành công đáng kinh ngạc của Facebook có thể được coi là một “thiên nga đen”, việc nước Anh rời khỏi Liên minh châu Âu cũng là một “thiên nga đen”. Thiên nga đen luôn ẩn hiện trong mọi mặt của cuộc sống với những tác động khó lường, theo cả hướng tiêu cực và tích cực. Tinh tế, táo bạo nhưng không kém phần thú vị, Thiên Nga Đen chắc chắn là cuốn sách không thể bỏ qua cho những ai đam mê hiểu biết. Và cuốn sách này, bản thân nó cũng chính là một thiên nga đen…