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Title Antifragile : How to live in a world we Don't Understand
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Call No 155.24 NIC
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Publisher Name Allen Lane The Penguin Press
Publishing Year 2012
Edition 1st
Pages 519
Price 16.99 GBP
Text Language English
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Description "The acclaimed author of the influential bestseller The Black Swan, Nicholas Nassim Taleb takes a next big step with a deceptively simple concept: the "antifragile." Like the Greek hydra that grows two heads for each one it loses, people, systems, and institutions that are antifragile not only withstand shocks, they benefit from them. In a modern world dominated by chaos and uncertainty, Antifragile is a revolutionary vision from one of the most subversive and important thinkers of our time. Pra
Keywords Uncertainty-Information theory-Social aspects; Forecasting; Complexity-Philosophy