About the Author Saifedean Ammous is a Professor of Economics at the Lebanese American University and member of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. He holds a PhD in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. 关于作者： Saifedean Ammous 他是一个经济学教授，在黎巴嫩贝鲁特的私立大学和资本主义中心成员和哥伦比亚大学学会。他拥有哥伦比亚大学可持续发展博士学位。 Foreword 前言 by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Let us follow the logic of things from the beginning. Or, rather, from the end: modern times. We are, as I am writing these lines, witn...