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Books recommended by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb recommends 31 books, among them A Guide to Econometrics, Birth of a Theorem and Consciousness.

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31 books

A Guide to Econometrics

Peter E. Kennedy

Economics & politics

Birth of a Theorem

Cédric Villani

Biography & memoir

Consciousness

Susan Blackmore

Philosophy

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow

Technology

Elements of Information Theory

Thomas M. Cover

Science & nature

Explaining Social Behavior

Jon Elster

Psychology

Financial Derivatives

Jamil Baz & George Chacko

Money & investing

Good Calories, Bad Calories

Gary Taubes

Health & fitness

Happy Accidents

Morton A. Meyers

Health & fitness

History of the Mind

Nicholas Humphrey

Psychology

How Nature Works

Per Bak

Science & nature

I Think, Therefore I Laugh

John Allen Paulos

Philosophy

Idea Makers

Stephen Wolfram

History

Information

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Technology

Invariances

Robert Nozick

Philosophy

Mapping the Mind

Rita Carter

Psychology

Mathematics

A. D. Aleksandrov

Philosophy

Mean Genes

Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan

Philosophy

Modelling Extremal Events

Paul Embrechts et al.

Economics & politics

Models. Behaving. Badly.

Emanuel Derman

Money & investing

Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes

Athanasios Papoulis

Science & nature

Probability Theory

S.R.S. Varadhan

Science & nature

Scale

Geoffrey West

Economics & politics

Statistical Models

David A. Freedman et al.

Science & nature

The Mind Doesn't Work That Way

Jerry Fodor

Philosophy

The Paradox of Choice

Barry Schwartz

Economics & politics

The Science of Conjecture

James Franklin

History

The Wisdom Paradox

Elkhonon Goldberg

Psychology

Thinking and Deciding

Jonathan Baron

Philosophy

This Explains Everything

John Brockman

History