Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Record no. 58918)
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| control field | 58918 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260219124017.0 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781400067824 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | AIS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 155.2'4 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Random House |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some systems actually benefit from disorder. In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem; in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what he calls the "antifragile" is one step beyond robust, as it benefits from adversity, uncertainty and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, and proposing that things be built in an antifragile manner. Extremely ambitious and multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave-and thrive-in a world we don't understand and which is too uncertain for us to even try to understand. He who is not antifragile will perish. Why is the city state better than the nation state, why is debt bad for you, and why is almost everything modern bound to fail? The book covers innovation, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. Throughout, the voice and recipes of the ancient wisdom from Phoenician, Roman, Greek, and Medieval sources are heard loud and clear. |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Nonfiction |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Philosophy |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Finance |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Economics |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Business |
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| Genre/form data or focus term | Psychology |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="<WEB_URL_ROOT_PATH>/MNG06/Antifragile Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.pdf"><WEB_URL_ROOT_PATH>/MNG06/Antifragile Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.pdf</a> |
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