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Podcast: Faith and Economics
Episode: The Lindy Effect -Evidence of Order? |#140
Description: This week the Gwartney team talks about the Lindy effect. The Lindy effect is The Lindy Effect is the idea that the older something is, the longer itβs likely to be around in the future.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in his book, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, defines it for non-perishable items (things like information, intellectual production, etc.) as so:
If a book has been in print for forty years, I can expect it to be in print for another forty years. But, and that is the main difference, if it survives another decade, th...