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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
AuthorNassim Nicholas Taleb
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBusiness, Economics, Mathematics
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group (United States)
Penguin Books (United Kingdom)
Publication date
2012
Publication placeUS
Pages519
ISBN[[Special:BookSources/1400067820%3Cbr%3E9781400067824 |1400067820
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Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published in November 2012 by Random House in the United States and Penguin in the United Kingdom.

In the introduction of the book, Taleb describes it as follows: "Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty. Yet, in spite of the ubiquity of the phenomenon, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile. Let us call it antifragile. Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better."[1]

References

  1. ^ www.fooledbyrandomness.com/prologue.pdf
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