Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Softcover

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812985923 ISBN 13: 9780812985924

Publisher: Random House, 2013

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-01 Pages: 544 Language: English Publisher: Random House Nassim Nicholas Taleb. the bestselling author of The Black Swan 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 not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.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 The an...

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Wall Street's principal dissident (Malcolm Gladwell)

The hottest thinker in the world (Bryan Appleyard The Sunday Times)

A guru for every would-be Damien Hirst, George Soros and aspirant despot (John Cornwell Sunday Times)

A superhero of the mind (Boyd Tonkin)

Nassim Taleb, in his exasperating but compelling book Antifragile, praises "things that gain from disorder" - people, policies and institutions designed to thrive on volatility, instead of shattering in the encounter with it (Oliver Burkman Guardian)

More than just robust or flexible, it actively thrives on disruption (Julian Baggini Guardian)

full of important warnings and insights (Julian Baggini Guardian)

Modern life is akin to a chronic stress injury. And the way to combat it is to embrace randomness in all its forms...the great seer of the modern age (Guardian)

Something antifragile actively thrives under the impact of the unexpected...to embrace randomness rather than trying to control it (The Sunday Times)

Enduring volatility is one thing; what about benefiting from it?...That is what Taleb calls 'antifragility' and he thinks that it is the ultimate model to aspire to-for individuals, financial institutions, even nations...may well capture a quality that you have long aspired to without having quite known quite what it is...I saw the world afresh (The Times)

About the Author

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is an uncompromizing no-nonsense thinker for our times. He has spent his life immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor and researcher. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's School of Engineering. He is the author of the 4-volume INCERTO (Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0812985923
• ISBN 13: 9780812985924
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 544