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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Paperback / softback, 2014)
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In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner.
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<b><i>Antifragile </i>is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are <i>Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, </i>and <i>The Bed of Procrustes</i>.</b> Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of <i>The Black Swan</i> and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world. Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile is that category of things that t only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. In <i>The Black Swan, </i>Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In <i>Antifragile, </i> Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. Furthermore, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call efficient t efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before even starting on the job? How did the sinking of the <i>Titanic</i> save lives? The book spans invation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, ecomic systems, and medicine. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are loud and clear. <i>Antifragile</i> is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and icoclastic, Taleb's message is revolutionary: The antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it. <b>Praise for <i>Antifragile</i></b> Ambitious and thought-provoking . . . highly entertaining. <b>--<i>The Ecomist</i></b> A bold book explaining how and why we should embrace uncertainty, randomness, and error . . . It may just change our lives. <b>--<i>Newsweek</i></b><b><i></i></b> Revelatory . . . [Taleb] pulls the reader along with the logic of a Socrates. <b>--<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><b></b> Startling . . . richly crammed with insights, stories, fine phrases and intriguing asides . . . I will have to read it again. And again. <b>--Matt Ridley, <i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b> Trenchant and persuasive . . . Taleb's insatiable polymathic curiosity kws bounds. . . . You finish the book feeling braver and uplifted. <b>--<i>New Statesman</i></b> Antifragility isn't just sound ecomic and political doctrine. It's also the key to a good life. <b>--<i>Fortune</i></b><i></i> At once thought-provoking and brilliant. <b><i>--Los Angeles Times</i></b><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Trade
ISBN-100812979680
ISBN-139780812979688
eBay Product ID (ePID)184174003
Product Key Features
Book TitleAntifragile : Things That Gain from Disorder
Number of Pages544 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
IllustratorYes
GenreComputers, Psychology, Business & Economics, Social Science, Philosophy
TypeTextbook
AuthorNassim Nicholas Taleb
Book SeriesIncerto Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback (Us) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback / Softback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Height205mm
Width132mm
Weight408g
Additional Product Features
Date of Publication28/01/2014
SubjectHistory of Ideas & Popular Philosophy
Intended AudienceTrade
Spine29mm
Country of PublicationUnited States
Author Biography<b>Nassim Nicholas Taleb</b> has devoted his life to problems of uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. He spent nearly two decades as a businessman and quantitative trader before becoming a full-time philosophical essayist and academic researcher in 2006. Although he spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flaneur meditating in cafes, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's Polytechnic Institute. His main subject matter is decision making under opacity --that is, a map and a protocol on how we should live in a world we don't understand. Taleb's books have been published in thirty-three languages. <i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>
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- 20 Dec, 2018
A must have book.
Very helpful information in the book to help one find solutions to tangible problemsVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
