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Nov 17, 2020

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Principia Politica

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Most of the tension resides between 1) Embedded, complexity-minded, multiscale/fractal localism (politics as an ecology/complex adaptive system), and 2) Abstract one-dimensional universalists and monoculturalism (politics as a top-down engineering

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "Localism and its Application to Lebanon"

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In a pop-up seminar held at the LAU New York Academic Center and Headquarters, author Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses the recent protests happening in Lebanon and the idea of localism being a viable solution for the country.

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Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

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Rory Sutherland

‘A breakthrough book. Wonderfully applicable to everything in life, and funny as hell.’ Nassim Nicholas Taleb To be brilliant, you have to be irrational Why is Red Bull so popular – even though everyone hates the taste? Why do countdown boards on platforms take away the pain of train delays? And w