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Nassim Nicholas Taleb 出版社: Random House 副标题: Things That Gain from Disorder 出版年: 2012-11-27 页数: 544 定价: USD 30.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781400067824
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder.
In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb ...
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder.
In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the “antifragile” is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish.
Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is immune to prediction errors. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is everything that is both modern and complicated bound to fail? The book spans innovation by trial and error, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are heard loud and clear.
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 and predict. Erudite and witty, Taleb’s message is revolutionary: What is not antifragile will surely perish.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor. Although he spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet, he is currently Distinguishe...
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability, and knowledge, and he has led three high-profile careers around his ideas, as a man of letters, as a businessman-trader, and as a university professor. Although he spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafés across the planet, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. His work has been published in thirty-three languages.
The very idea of being an Einstein in physics is no longer original.
There are secrets to our world that only practice can reveal, and no opinion or analysis will ever capture in full.
This secret property is, of course, revealed through time, and, thankfully, only through time. (查看原文)
1 有用 计划不变 2013-05-15 06:56:02
有些过于乏味了。道理却是可以学习和利用的。值得一看。不太值得收藏。
1 有用 哦薇安 2019-03-06 04:40:12
观点非常新颖,故事也很棒,但是taleb真是一如既往的爱说教啊,听多了有点烦
2 有用 M. Tong 2018-12-31 23:07:08
这种抽象层次较高的书籍,更多只能获得一种看问题的视角和对已有经验的总结,难以用来指导未知事物。比如身体需要不时的通过压力来得到刺激,所以我们需要锻炼。那么倒时差,或者吃垃圾食品算不算呢?
4 有用 狼王哈士奇 2014-03-31 13:00:01
有点啰嗦
33 有用 阿北 2013-01-27 13:15:08
You'll love it, or you'll be bored to death. There's no other way.