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Antifragile : things that gain from disorder / Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Author: Taleb, Nassim.

Publisher: New York : Random House, c2012.

ISBN: 9781400067824 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
1400067820 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
9780679645276 (ebk.)
0679645276 (ebk.)

Description: xxi, 519 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject: Uncertainty (Information theory) Social aspects.
Forecasting.
Complexity (Philosophy).
PSYCHOLOGY / General. bisacsh
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General. bisacsh

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: Shares philosophical insights into how adversity and chaos can bring out the best in individuals and communities, drawing on multiple disciplines to consider various topics.

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