Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0141038225 ISBN 13: 9780141038223

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2025

Riassunto

Mi ha fatto davvero riflettere sul mio modo di pensare' - Mohsin Hamid, autore di Exit West I tempi duri non durano. Le persone dure sì. In The Black Swan, Taleb ci ha mostrato che eventi altamente improbabili e imprevedibili sono alla base di quasi tutto ciò che riguarda il nostro mondo. Qui Taleb capovolge l'incertezza, rendendola desiderabile, persino necessaria. L'antifragile è al di là del resiliente o del robusto. Il resiliente resiste agli shock e rimane lo stesso; l'antifragile migliora sempre di più. Proprio come le ossa umane diventano più forti quando sottoposte a stress e tensione, molte cose nella vita traggono beneficio dallo stress, dal disordine, dalla volatilità e dal tumulto. Ciò che Taleb ha identificato e chiama antifragile sono cose che non solo traggono vantaggio dal caos, ma ne hanno bisogno per sopravvivere e prosperare. Antifragile è un modello per vivere in un mondo da Cigno Nero. Erudito, spiritoso e iconoclasta, il messaggio di Taleb è rivoluzionario: l'antifragile, e solo l'antifragile, ce la farà. "Il pensatore più promettente del mondo" Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

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Informazioni sull?autore

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent twenty-one years as a risk taker before becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical, and (mostly) practical problems with probability. Although he spends most of his time as a flâneur, meditating in cafes across the planet, he is currently Distinguished Professor at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering but self-funds his own research.

His books, Antifragile, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes and Fooled by Randomness (part of a multi-volume collection called Incerto, Latin for uncertainty), have been translated into thirty-seven languages. Taleb has authored more than fifty scholarly papers as backup to Incerto, ranging from international affairs and risk management to statistical physics. He refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Tough times don't last. Tough people do. In this book, the author shows that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world.

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.

Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. What Taleb has identified and calls antifragile are things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish.

In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better.

What's more, the antifragile is immune to prediction errors and protected from adverse events. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is what we call "efficient" not efficient at all? Why do government responses and social policies protect the strong and hurt the weak? Why should you write your resignation letter before starting on the job? How did the sinking of the Titanic save lives? The book spans innovation by trial and error, life decisions, politics, urban planning, war, personal finance, economic systems and medicine, drawing on modern street wisdom and ancient sources.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0141038225
• ISBN 13: 9780141038223
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 544
• Contatto del produttore: Penguin; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/; ; CL MODESTO LAFUENTE 41; Madrid; Madrid; Spagna