I will not set foot in Azerbaijan with Ruben Vardanyan jailed there: Nassim Taleb

“Was asked to go to Azerbaijan for a lecture. I declined (they huugely upped their offer, not understanding my ethics, thinking it would make a difference).

I will not set foot in Azerbaijan with Ruben Vardanyan jailed there,” world-renowned economist and public intellectual, author of The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb wrote on his X account.

In another post, he reposted Mehriban Aliyeva’s assessment of his book The Black Swan and added: “The fact that a certain government likes my work does not make me interested in reciprocating. I am not a real estate salesman.”