Re: the Black Swan

[Charles Brown <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 5, 2008 10:58 AM, Eugene Coyle
> I went along with a friend last night to hear Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
> the author of the hot book THE BLACK SWAN.  He's an appealing
speaker
> and smeared economists in most paragraphs of his talk, which I much
> appreciated.  He really sees economists as the lowest of the low.
>
>         In the Q & A he was offered an opportunity to disparage
other
> professions, such as priests and bishops, but he declined, saving
his
> opprobrium for economits.
>
> Gene Coyle


^^^^
CB: In the book he disparages the mathematical concept of the bell
curve.