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Antifragile : things that gain from disorder / Nassim Nicholas Taleb

By: Taleb, Nassim NicholasMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Penguin Books, 2013. Description: xix, 519 p. ill. 20 cmISBN: 9780141038223DDC classification:
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Contents Include:

Book I: The Antifragile: An Introduction

Chapter 1 Between Damocles and Hydra

Chapter 2 Overcompensation and Overreaction Everywhere

Chapter 3 The cat and the Washing Machine

Chapter 4 What Kills Me Makes Others Stronger

Book II Modernity and the Denial of Antifragility

Chapter 5 The Souk and Office Building

Chapter 6 Tell them I Love (Some) Randomness

Chapter 7 Naive Intervention

Chapter 8 Prediction as a Child of Modernity

Book III A Nonpredictive View of the World

Chapter 9 Fat Tony and Fragilistas

Chapter 10 Seneca's Upside and Downside

Chapter 11 Never Marry the Rock Star

Book IV Optionality, Technology and the Intelligence of Antifragility

Chapter 12 Thales' Sweet Grapes

Chapter 13 Lecturing Birds on How to Fly

Chapter 14 When Two Things Are Not the "Same Thing'

Chapter 15 History Written by the Losers

Chapter 16 A Lesson in Disorder

Chapter 17 Fat Tony Debates Socrates

Book V The Nonlinear and the Nonlinear

Chapter 18 On the Difference Between a Large Stone and a Thousand Pebbles

Chapter 19 The Philosopher's Stone and Its Inverse

Chapter 20 Time and Fragility

Chapter 21 Medicine, Convexity and Opacity

Chapter 22 To Live Long, but Not Too Long

Book VII The Ethics of Fragility and Antifragility

Chapter 23 Skin in the Game: Antifragility and Optionality at the Expense of Others

Chapter 24 Fitting Ethics to a Profession

Includes Index.



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