Antifragile : things that gain from disorder / Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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TextPublication details: London ; Penguin Books, 2013. Description: xix, 519 p. ill. 20 cmISBN: 9780141038223DDC classification:
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Villa College QI Campus | Villa College Library | 155.24 TAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | In transit from Villa College QI Campus to Villa College Library since 07/09/2023 | 15898 |
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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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