Thinking that all individuals pursue "selfish" interest is … - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Thinking that all individuals pursue "selfish" interest is equivalent to assuming that all random variables have zero covariance.

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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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