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Antifragile : things that gain from disorder Cover Image Book

Antifragile : things that gain from disorder

Anti-fragile (other title)
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas 1960- (author.).

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 1400067820
  • ISBN: 9781400067824
  • ISBN: 9780812979688
  • Physical Description: print
    xxi, 519 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2012]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-504) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- The antifragile: an introduction -- Modernity and the denial of antifragility -- Nonpredictive view of the world -- Optionality, technology, and he intelligence of antifragility -- The nonlinear and the nonlinear -- Via negativa -- The ethics of fragility and antifragility -- Epilogue

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Subject:
Complexity (Philosophy)
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Uncertainty (Information theory) Social aspects
Adaptability (Psychology)

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library.

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