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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (; alternatively Nessim or Nissim; born 12 September 1960) is a Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist. His work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty. Taleb is the author of the Incerto, a five-volume work on the nature of uncertainty published between 2001 and 2018 (notably, The Black Swan and Antifragile). He has taught at several universities, serving as a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering since September 2008. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the 167th most popular economist (down from 154th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Lebanon (up from 51st in 2019) and the most popular Lebanese Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Nassim Nicholas Taleb ranks 167 out of 414. Before him are Greg Mankiw, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Robert C. Merton, Gustav von Schmoller, Ernest Mandel, and William Beveridge. After him are Ernst Engel, Raymond Barre, Oskar R. Lange, Robert B. Wilson, Michał Kalecki, and Harriet Martineau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Nassim Nicholas Taleb ranks 81. Before him are Naoki Urasawa, Hirohiko Araki, Walter Zenga, Gia Carangi, Jeremy Clarkson, and Pierre Littbarski. After him are Taneti Mamau, Hideaki Anno, Jennifer Grey, Gazebo, Jonas Gahr Støre, and Daryl Hannah.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Nassim Nicholas Taleb ranks 47 out of 145. Before him are Pierre Gemayel (1905), Antipater of Sidon (-200), Pamphilus of Caesarea (240), Raymond II, Count of Tripoli (1115), Bechara El Khoury (1890), and Camille Chamoun (1900). After him are Gazebo (1960), Omar Karami (1934), Hassan Diab (1959), Sabah (1927), Bertrand, Count of Toulouse (1065), and Elias Hrawi (1926).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Lebanon

Among economists born in Lebanon, Nassim Nicholas Taleb ranks 1. 

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