Antifragile : things that gain from disorder
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- ISBN: 0679645276 (ebook)
- ISBN: 9780679645276 (ebook)
- ISBN: 1400067820 (hardback: alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781400067824 (hardback: alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xxi, 519 p. ; 25 cm
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-504) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The triad, or, A map of the world and things along the three properties -- The antifragile : an introduction. Between Damocles and Hydra ; Overcompensation and overreaction everywhere ; The cat and the washing machine ; What kills me makes others stronger -- Modernity and the denial of antifragility. The souk and the office building ; Tell them I love (some) randomness ; Naive intervention ; Prediction as a child of modernity -- A nonpredictive view of the world. Fat Tony and the fragilistas ; Seneca's upside and downside ; Never marry the rock star -- Optionality, technology, and the intelligence of antifragility. Do you really know where you are going? ; Thales' sweet grapes ; Lecturing birds on how to fly ; When two things are not the "same thing" ; History written by the losers ; A lesson in disorder ; Fat Tony debates Socrates -- The nonlinear and the nonlinear. On the importance of attics ; On the difference between a large stone and a thousand pebbles ; The philosopher's stone and its inverse -- Via negativa. Time and fragility ; Medicine, convexity, and opacity ; To live long, but not too long -- The ethics of fragility and antifragility. Skin in the game : antifragility and optionality at the expense of others ; Fitting ethics to a profession. |
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Subject: | Uncertainty (Information theory) Social aspects Forecasting Complexity (Philosophy) PSYCHOLOGY / General BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General |
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