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Well, the practitioners of the field of Economics reject Hazlitt and Taleb as cranks, so I’d take their opinions with a grain of salt.
by pjkundert 8y ago
Well, the practitioners of the field of Economics reject Hazlitt and Taleb as cranks, so I’d take their opinions with a grain of salt.
- MagnumOpus 8y agoTaleb is not a crank, he is an obnoxious snake oil salesman - packages well-known truism as wisdom invented by himself, slates the orthodoxy, collects lots of money for his hedge fund, then loses it all and earns millions writing books about how all the other hedgies who actually made money are "doing it wrong".