Although I’m only fifty pages into Nassim Taleb’s book “The Black Swan” I thought I would write a quick initial review. The book is extremely well written and littered with superb anecdotes and details which are relatively easy to comprehend for anyone with any sort of financial/statistical/mathematic background. More importantly it is quite relevant to today’s economic and market condition. Mr Taleb explains and provides support for his viewpoint of how the majority of people neglect to appreciate and recognize the significance of Black Swans on the trajectory of our economic and social environment. Pick this book up – it is an absolute must-read if you work in finance or any related field (or simply have a curiosity as to how our entire global human system function and is changed throughout time).
