reading notes forThe Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items/itemKey/JXCJFIWZ/q/swan
• pp. xxi, xxv, xxvii, 7,8,9,11,12 (memory), 14 (bond prices), 15, 16 (complexity), 19 (platonic folds), 21, 24, 31, 33, 35(lists), 37 (grey swans), 42
• 'black swan event' proofing » taleb robustness

• Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses many of the ideas from 'The Black Swan' in his Long Now seminar about long term thinking » http://s3.amazonaws.com/salt-recordings/salt-020080208-taleb/salt-020080208-taleb_web.mp3

• http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/notebook.htm

via http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/DerivTBS.htm

• SPECIAL ISSUES of ACADEMIC JOURNALS:
  • International Journal of Forecasting, 2009 – Decision Making under Low Levels of Predictability - Articles by Makridakis, Gigererenzer, Taleb, Goldstein, etc.
  • The American Statistician 2007 Black Swan Articles –Brown, Lund, Wesfall, Hilbe, and Taleb
  • Critical Review Black Swan Symposium Blyth, Callahan, Jervis, and Runde

• BOOK LENGTH WORKS
  • Lecturing Birds on Flying Pablo Triana, Wiley 2009
  • The Blank Swan, The End of Probability Elie Ayache, Wiley 2010
  • The Art of Credit Derivatives: Demystifying the Black Swan Joao Garcia & Serge Goossens. Wiley 2010
  • On the Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile Michael Allen (on the Casanova problem in the publishing industry)

• ECONOMICS / STATISTICS / OPERATIONS RESEARCH
  • Quality, Risk and the Taleb Quadrants IBM Quality & Productivity Research, 2009, Ron S. Kenett and Charles S. Tapiero, SSRN
  • A Black Swan in the Money Market, NBER Working Paper No. W13943, Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 33
  • John B. Taylor and John C. Williams, Stanford University and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  • Black Swan or Fat Turkey? Business Strategy Review, Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp. 34-39, Autumn 2008 Geoff Booth and Elias Mazzawi , SSRN
  • Italian Operational Requirement and Small Banks: The Black Swan Bancaria No. 03-2009 ,Gianfausto Salvadori , Simona Cosma and Giampaolo Gabbi , SSRN
  • Nickels versus Black Swans: Reputation, Trading Strategies and Asset Prices Yale ICF Working Paper No. 08-26 Steven G. Malliaris and Hongjun Yan C Yale University - International Center for Finance and Yale University - International Center for Finance , SSRN
  • Swan-Upmanship Business Strategy Review, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 58-61, Spring 2009, Des Dearlove , SSRN
  • The Financial Meltdown of 2008: Causes and Symptoms Saur Vaishwanar, SSRN
  • Monetary and Financial Stability Axel Leijonhufvud, The Centre for Economic Policy Research, No 14

• DEFENSE
  • COOP Hardening Against Black Swans, Victoria Fineberg, National Defense University, 2009

• PHYSICS/ECONOPHYSICS
  • Dragon-Kings, Black Swans and the Prediction of Crises, Didier Sornette, 2009, ArXiv, arXiv.org > physics > arXiv:0907.4290, In Press, International Journal of Terraspace Science and Engineering (2009

• ENGINEERING
  • Strategies for managing the Consequences of Black Swan Events, Avinash M Nafday, Leadership and Management in Engineering, October 2009

• CLIMATE CHANGE (Applications of the 4th Quadrant)
  • Review of Methodologies and Possible Scenarios For Conducting Vulnerability Assessments to Climate Change , G.J.Nasr, United Nations Economic and Social Commission, 2009

• INSURANCE
  • Black Swans or Black Holes, Gerry Smedinghoff, Contingencies, May-Jun 2008

• EDUCATION
  • In Search of Singular Insight, Gary Thomas, 2009
  • In Search of the Black Swans, Mark Buchanan, Physics World, 2009 (about the publish and perish problem)