Title:
Antifragile : things that gain from disorder / Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
ISBN:
9781400067824
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House, [2012]
©2012
Physical Description:
xxi, 519 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Book 1. The antifragile : an introduction -- Book 2. Modernity and the denial of antifragility -- Book 3. A nonpredictive view of the world -- Book 4. Optionality, technology, and the intelligence of antifragility -- Book 5. The nonlinear and the nonlinear -- Book 6. Via negativa -- Book 7. The ethics of fragility and antifragility.
Summary:
"The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time"-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
ocn774490503
Availability:
Rosemount - Robert Trail~1
