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Antifragile

Nassim Taleb

Systems & ComplexityPhilosophyEconomics & Finance
Featured in: Taleb's Incerto reading guide
Publish date
2012
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb investigates systems and entities that benefit from stress, disorder, and volatility, defining this property as antifragility. The book examines how this concept applies across domains such as economics, politics, medicine, and personal decision-making. It contrasts naturally antifragile structures with modern institutions that create hidden vulnerabilities by attempting to eliminate unpredictability.
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