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                                             May  9, 2008

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                                               On p.238, I see that Taleb has
                                               Kenneth Arrow filed as one of a
                                               number of Nobel prize winning
                                               economists who are "under a
                                               delusional state under the
                                               effect of mathematics".


Kenneth Arrow among other
things is known for Arrow's
Paradox, which is essentially a
Godel's theorem of political
theory: Arrow showed that there
is no such thing as a perfect
voting system.

   Any set of rules you
   choose is capable of                       One might think that Taleb would
   yielding perverse results.                 have some respect for these sorts
                                              of mathematically certain
                                              boundaries on our certainty.





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