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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Lebanese-American essayist and former trader

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Author of The Black Swan and Skin in the Game, he distrusts forecasters, technocrats and anyone who gives advice without bearing the risk of being wrong.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb sits in the right-libertarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning free market and strongly libertarian. The clearest positions are strongly anti-establishment on institutions, strongly non-interventionist on interventionism and strongly libertarian on liberty and authority.

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Where Nassim Nicholas Taleb sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyLeaning free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly libertarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-cautious
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceSlightly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly religious
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly non-interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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People furthest from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Joseph Stalin Soviet leader, 1920s to 19537%Louis XIV King of France, 1643 to 17159%Kim Jong Un Supreme Leader of North Korea, 2011 to present9%Xi Jinping General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, 2012 to present11%

Political views closest to Nassim Nicholas Taleb

LocalismPushes power and decisions down to the smallest workable community.95%Non-interventionismAvoids foreign wars and entangling alliances while trading freely with all.90%PaleolibertarianismMixes free-market libertarianism with cultural traditionalism and localism.89%AgrarianismValues rural life, small farms and self-reliant communities over industrial and urban…86%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Sarah Josephine Taleb, Attribution, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.