Antifragile things that gain from disorder

By:

Taleb, Nassim Nicholas

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Random House Trade Paperbacks 2014Description: xxi, 519P. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780141038223

Subject(s):

Uncertainty (Information theory) --Social aspects

DDC classification:

155.24TAL

Summary: In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-504) and index.

In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. In Antifragile, Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.

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