Antifragile

Contributor(s):

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Penguin Books, 2013Description: xix, 519 p. 20 cm.ISBN:

9780141038223

Subject(s):

Summary: Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. ; Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. ; Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb's message is revolutionary: the antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Recommended bibliography book	TBS Barcelona Libre acceso	Q375 TAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B03642

Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. ; Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. ; Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world. Erudite, witty, and iconoclastic, Taleb's message is revolutionary: the antifragile, and only the antifragile, will make it.