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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nassim Nicholas Taleb has received more than 4,415,219 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the 154th most popular economist (down from 152nd in 2019), the 51st most popular biography from Lebanon (down from 42nd in 2019) and the most popular Lebanese Economist.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Nassim Nicholas Taleb ranks 154 out of 414. Before him are Jeffrey Sachs, William Beveridge, Robert F. Engle, Benedetto Cotrugli, Walt Whitman Rostow, and Peter Diamond. After him are Michał Kalecki, Kenneth E. Boulding, Ernst Engel, John Bates Clark, Oskar R. Lange, and William F. Sharpe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Nassim Nicholas Taleb ranks 74. Before him are José Maria Neves, Željko Obradović, Fayez al-Sarraj, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, and Gazebo. After him are Igor Belanov, Richard Ramirez, Laurent Fignon, Steve Vai, Simonetta Sommaruga, and Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Nassim Nicholas Taleb ranks 51 out of 145. Before him are Abd al-Rahman al-Awza'i (707), Nimatullah Kassab (1808), Bechara El Khoury (1890), Bertrand, Count of Toulouse (1065), Raymond II, Count of Tripoli (1115), and Gazebo (1960). After him are Omar Karami (1934), Bechara Boutros al-Rahi (1940), Nicolas Hayek (1928), Maximus of Tyre (200), Serj Tankian (1967), and Fawzi al-Qawuqji (1890).

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Among ECONOMISTS In Lebanon

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

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