Didier Sornette

Didier Sornette is a TED speaker who has written 2 quality-verified books, paired here with their talk.

While financial crashes, recessions, earthquakes and other extreme events appear chaotic, Didier Sornette's research is focused on finding out whether they are, in fact, predictable. They may happen often as a surprise, he suggests, but they don't come out of the blue: the most extreme risks (and gains) are what he calls "dragon kings" that almost always result from a visible drift toward a critical instability. In his hypothesis, this instability has measurable technical and/or socio-economical precursors. As he says: "Crises are not external shocks." An expert on complex systems, Sornette is the chair of entrepreneurial risk at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and director of the Financial Crisis Observatory, a project to test the hypothesis that markets can be predictable, especially during bubbles. He's the author of Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems.

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What books has Didier Sornette written?

Didier Sornette has written 2 books in the Books Worth Reading catalogue: "Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder", "Man-made Catastrophes and Risk Information Concealment". Each is quality-verified and paired with their TED talk.

What does Didier Sornette write about?

Didier Sornette's books on Books Worth Reading cover Business & Economics.

What is Didier Sornette known for?

Didier Sornette's work challenges the widespread assumption that catastrophic events—whether financial crashes, earthquakes, or nuclear accidents—are essentially unpredictable and emerge without warning. His distinctive contribution lies in demonstrating that even seemingly chaotic phenomena follow ...

What is Didier Sornette's TED talk?

Didier Sornette's TED talk is "How we can predict the next financial crisis" (2013). It is paired with their books on Books Worth Reading.