STICERD and The Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality public lecture
Economic Sciences as Mostly a Procrustean Bed
Date: Tuesday 7 December 2010
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders
Speaker: Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Chair: Professor Dimitri Vayanos
We cover the inapplicability of economic methods statistically, methodologically, empirically, and, mostly, ethically.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is Distinguished Professor of RIsk Engineering, NYU, and author of The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms. His previous books Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan have been published in thirty-one languages.
This event marks the launch of Taleb's new book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms.
