(These are not book
Reviews, but current research using the ideas as a starting point). For
references in books, see here.
CURRENT CIRCULATING ACADEMIC & TECHNICAL
RESEARCH BUILDING ON THE IDEAS
SPECIAL ISSUES of ACADEMIC JOURNALS:
International Journal of Forecasting, 2009 -- Decision
Making under Low Levels of Predictability - Articles by Makridakis,
Gigererenzer, Taleb, Goldstein, etc.
The American Statistician 2007 Black Swan
Articles --Brown,
Lund, Wesfall, Hilbe, and
Taleb
Critical Review Black Swan Symposium Blyth, Callahan, Jervis, and Runde
BOOK LENGTH WORKS
Lecturing
Birds on Flying Pablo Triana, Wiley 2009
The Blank Swan, The End of Probability Elie Ayache, Wiley 2010
The Art of Credit Derivatives: Demystifying the Black
Swan Joao Garcia & Serge Goossens.
Wiley 2010
On
the Survival of Rats in the Slush Pile Michael Allen (on the Casanova problem in the publishing
industry)
Informing Business: Research and Education on a Rugged
Landscape T. Grandon Gill 2010
MEDICINE
It's
the Unknown Unknowns That Matter AJ Senagore - Diseases of the Colon &
Rectum, 2010
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Black swans and
elephants on the move: the impact of emergencies on the welfare state FG Castles - Journal of European
Social Policy, 2010
Statesmanship and the
Problem of Theoretical Generalization JF
Daniel, B Smith - Polity, 2010
CRIMINOLOGY
Random Activities Theory:
The Case for 'Black Swan'Criminology T Griffin, BG Stitt - Critical Criminology,
2010
ECONOMICS /
STATISTICS / OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Quality,
Risk and the Taleb Quadrants IBM Quality & Productivity Research, 2009, Ron S. Kenett and Charles S. Tapiero, SSRN
A
Black Swan in the Money Market, NBER Working Paper No. W13943, Rock
Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 33
John
B. Taylor and John C. Williams, Stanford University and Federal Reserve Bank of
San Francisco
Black
Swan or Fat Turkey? Business Strategy Review, Vol. 19, Issue 3, pp.
34-39, Autumn 2008 Geoff Booth and Elias Mazzawi , SSRN
Italian
Operational Requirement and Small Banks: The Black Swan Bancaria No. 03-2009 ,Gianfausto Salvadori , Simona Cosma and Giampaolo Gabbi , SSRN
Nickels
versus Black Swans: Reputation, Trading Strategies and Asset Prices Yale ICF
Working Paper No. 08-26 Steven G. Malliaris and Hongjun Yan C Yale University - International Center for Finance and
Yale University - International Center for Finance , SSRN
Swan-Upmanship Business Strategy Review, Vol. 20,
Issue 1, pp. 58-61, Spring 2009, Des Dearlove , SSRN
The
Financial Meltdown of 2008: Causes and Symptoms Saur Vaishwanar,
SSRN
Monetary
and Financial Stability Axel Leijonhufvud,
The
Centre for Economic Policy Research, No 14
Is the Recent Financial Crisis Really a
ÒOnce-in-a-CenturyÓ Event G Zhou, Y Zhu - Financial
Analysts Journal, 2010
Black Monday and Black Swans
JC Bogle - Financial Analysts Journal, 2008
A Flock of Black Swans RB Seaberg
- Journal of Financial Planning, 200
Asean's Òblack
swans" DK Emmerson - Journal of Democracy, 2008
- muse.jhu.edu
Market turmoil from subprime to Jerome Kerviel:
Are models letting the industry down? , Leonard Matz Journal of Risk Management
in Financial Institutions
Black holes in risk governance
M Garnier - Journal of Risk Management in Financial
Institutions, 2009
Debate: The future of public administration—Serving beyond
the predictable A Gray, J Bourgon
- Public Money & Management, 2009
Business Black Swans and the Use and Abuse of a Notion, Graeme Dean & Frank Clarke, 2010, Australian Accounting Review
Black
Swans, New Nostradamuses, Voodoo Decision Theories
and the Science of Decision-Making in the Face of Severe Uncertainty M Sniedovich - 2010
DEFENSE
COOP
Hardening Against Black Swans, Victoria Fineberg,
National Defense University, 2009
Grey swans, black swans and risk management Sudhakar
Raju Journal of Risk Management in Financial
Institutions, 2010
PHYSICS/ECONOPHYSICS
Dragon-Kings,
Black Swans and the Prediction of Crises, Didier Sornette,
2009, ArXiv, arXiv.org > physics >
arXiv:0907.4290, In Press, International Journal of Terraspace Science and Engineering 2009
ENGINEERING & COMPUTER SCIENCE
Strategies
for managing the Consequences of Black Swan Events, Avinash M Nafday, Leadership and
Management in Engineering, October 2009
Toward
Risk Assessment of Large-Impact and Rare Event, K Hole, LH Netland - IEEE Security and Privacy, 2010
Black
Swans, Gray Cygnets and Other Rare Birds EL Rissland
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009 - Springer
Some
Swans are Black S Kelly-Bootle - Queue, 2007
Identification
of safety and security critical systems and activitiesT Aven - Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2009
Categorizing
risks in seven large projects-Which risks do the projects focus on? HP Krane, A RolstadŒs, NOE É -
Project Management É, 2010
The
moral dilemma W
Goucher - Computer
Fraud & Security, 2010
CLMATE CHANGE (Applications of the 4th Quadrant) I
Review
of Methodologies and Possible Scenarios For Conducting Vulnerability
Assessments to Climate Change , G.J.Nasr, United Nations Economic and Social
Commission, 2009
ECOLOGY
Why
compare marine ecosystems? Steven A. Murawski et
al, ICES Journal of Marine Science, 2010
Turning Black Swans
Green: The Vittorio Santaniello
Memorial Lecture Odin K.
Knudsen, AgBio, The Journal of Agrobiology
Management and Economics, 2010
INSURANCE
Black
Swans or Black Holes, Gerry Smedinghoff,
Contingencies, May-Jun 2008
Infinite-Mean
Losses: Insurance's ÒDread DiseaseÓ MR Powers - Journal of
Risk Finance, 2010
EDUCATION
In
Search of Singular Insight, Gary Thomas, 2009
In Search of the Black Swans,
Mark Buchanan, Physics World, 2009 (about the publish and perish problem)
MANAGEMENT
How
to win sales and influence customers: a black swan story S Brown -
Journal of Customer Behaviour, 2008
LAW
An
Unfortunate 'Tail': Reconsidering Risk Management Incentives after the
Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 DO Edwards - University of
Colorado Law Review, 2010
OTHER
Black Swans in Churches? Tails and Biases in Religious Giving, Roman Shestakov
Knowledge
Building and Social Work Research: A Critical Perspective W LeCroyÉ - Research on Social Work Practice, 2010
Fragments on black swan: money, credit and finance
in The Arcades Project of Walter Benjamin F Estrada - 2010
Safety and Security in Urban Academic
Libraries: a risk assessment approach to emergency preparedness TE Raffensperger - Urban Library Journal, 2010