Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Chinese Edition) - Hardcover

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 750864333X ISBN 13: 9787508643335

Publisher: CITIC Press Corporation, 2013

Synopsis

NOTE: Book is a Chinese Edition.

Nietzsche famously said: What does not kill me will only make me stronger. Just as the human skeleton under the weight and pressure but will more and more strong. rumors and riots in the containment and intensified repression but. like many things in our lives will be from stress. confusion. volatility and turmoil benefit. Taleb in anti-fragility as defined in the book anti-fragility are those who not only benefit from the chaos and volatility. and the need to maintain this confusion and volatility characteristics to survive and achieve prosperity things. In Black Swan. the Taleb reveals to us an extremely rare and unpredictable events lurking behind how things in the world. and in the anti-fragility: the benefit is never certainty. he tried to uncertainty of the rectification of n...

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Review:

Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2012: Fragile things break under stress. But, according to Nassim Nicholas Taleb, there's an entire class of other things that don't simply resist stress but actually grow, strengthen, or otherwise gain from unforeseen and otherwise unwelcome stimuli. Taleb sees degrees of antifragility everywhere, from fasting, mythology, and urban planning to economic, technological, cultural, and biological systems. The wealth of radical thinking in this book astounds; the glossary alone offered more thought-provoking ideas than any other nonfiction book I read this year. That said, Antifragile is far from flawless. As comical as Taleb's rough handling of his favorite targets can be--academics, economists, and tourists, to name a few--his argumentative style boasts gaping holes, non sequiturs aplenty, and at times an almost willfully repugnant tone. Some readers will find Taleb's brashness off-putting; others will embrace it as a charismatic component of the ideas themselves. Either way, no one will finish this book unchanged. -- Jason Kirk

About the Author:

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to problems of uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. He spent nearly two decades as a businessman and quantitative trader before becoming a full-time philosophical essayist and academic researcher in 2006. Although he spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. His main subject matter is “decision making under opacity”—that is, a map and a protocol on how we should live in a world we don’t understand.
 
Taleb’s books have been published in thirty-three languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: CITIC Press Corporation
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 750864333X
• ISBN 13: 9787508643335
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408