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[E]conomics is a narrative discipline, and explanations are easy to fit retrospectively. (page 257)

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (born 1 January 1960 in Amioun, Lebanon) is an essayist, epistemologist, researcher, and former practitioner of mathematical finance.

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