Antifragile [sound recording] / Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Title:

ISBN:

9780739370698

Personal Author:

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-

Edition:

Unabridged.

Publication Information:

New York : Random House Audio, [2012]

℗2012

Physical Description:

13 sound discs (16.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Compact disc.

Duration: 16:30:00.

Includes a PDF of graphs and tables from the book.

Adobe Reader required. PC and Mac compatible.

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.

Subject Term:

Uncertainty (Information theory) -- Social aspects.

Forecasting

Complexity (Philosophy)

Genre:

Audiobooks

Added Author:

Ochman, Joe

Performer:

Read by Joe Ochman.

OCLC Number:

ocn803898986