Antifragile: things that gain from disorder
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New York : Random House, c2012.
Physical Desc:
xxi, 519 pages : ill., charts ; 25 cm.
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Valley Hi-North Laguna
155.24 T143 2012
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"Examples of Antifragility: When you stress your body by lifting a big weight, your body gets stronger. New York has the best restaurants in the world because particular restaurants are always going bust, making the aggregate stronger and stronger, or antifragile. Evolution is antifragile. Certain business and investment strategies are antifragile. Older things tend to be more antifragile than newer ones - because they've been exposed to more Black Swans"--
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Book
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1st ed.
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English
ISBN:
9781400067824, 1400067820
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9781400067824
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [481]-504) and index.
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"Examples of Antifragility: When you stress your body by lifting a big weight, your body gets stronger. New York has the best restaurants in the world because particular restaurants are always going bust, making the aggregate stronger and stronger, or antifragile. Evolution is antifragile. Certain business and investment strategies are antifragile. Older things tend to be more antifragile than newer ones - because they've been exposed to more Black Swans"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Taleb, N. N. (2012). Antifragile: things that gain from disorder. New York, Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-. 2012. Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. New York, Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Taleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. New York, Random House, 2012.
MLA Citation (style guide)Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder. New York, Random House, 2012.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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| 505 | |a Book 1. The antifragile : an introduction -- Book 2. Modernity and the denial of antifragility -- Book 3. A nonpredictive view of the world -- Book 4. Optionality, technology, and the intelligence of antifragility -- Book 5. The nonlinear and the nonlinear -- Book 6. Via negativa -- Book 7. The ethics of fragility and antifragility. | ||
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