Random House Trade PaperbacksProduct DescriptionNassim Nicholas Talebs landmark Incerto series is an investigation of luck uncertainty probability opacity human error risk disorder and decision-making in a world we dont understand in nonoverlapping and standalone books. All four volumesAntifragile The Black Swan Fooled by Randomness and the expanded edition of The Bed of Procrustes updated with more than 50 percent new materialare now together in one boxed set.
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ANTIFRAGILE
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Startling . . . richly crammed with insights stories fine phrases and intriguing asides.The Wall Street Journal
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Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension many things in life benefit from disorder volatility and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better. What is crucial is that the antifragile loves errors?? as it incurs small harm and large benefits from them. Spanning politics?? urban planning?? war?? personal finance?? economic systems?? and medicine in an interdisciplinary and erudite style?? Antifragile is a blueprint for living in a Black Swan world.
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THE BLACK SWAN
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??[A book] that altered modern thinking.???The Times (London)
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A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and?? aft