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The Black Swan

LSE Public Lecture


Professor Taleb will discuss the dominant role of the low probability, high impact events in historical, cultural and soci-economic life, and the cognitive and scientific biases behind our blindness with respect to the improbable, based on his book The Black Swan.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the Dean’s Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.


Speaker(s):

Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb | talks
Professor Richard Bradley | talks

 

Date and Time:

6 March 2008 at 6:30 pm

Duration:

1 hour 30 minutes

 

Venue:

Hong Kong Theatre, London School of Economics &Political Science
Houghton St
London
WC2A 2AE


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London School of Economics & Political Science
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Tickets:

Free

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