Antifragile : things that gain from disorder

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780679645276
ISBN: 0679645276
ISBN: 1299069444
ISBN: 9781299069442
ISBN: 9780718197902
ISBN: 0718197909
ISBN: 9781400067824
ISBN: 1400067820
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource
Publisher: New York : Random House, ©2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.