The Bed of Procrustes
philosophical and practical aphorisms
$71.68
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
30 November 2010
Summary
Fit Life to Reality, Not Reality to Life: The Wisdom of Procrustes’ Bed
The Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, and Skin in the Game.
By the author of the modern c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781400069972 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1400069971 |
| Series: | Incerto |
| Author: | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2010 |
| Weight: | 346g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 140mm x 23mm |
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Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb “The most prophetic voice of all.” —GQ “The hottest thinker in the world.” —Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times (London) “[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne.” —The Wall Street Journal “Idiosyncratically brilliant.” —Niall Ferguson, Los Angeles Times
About The Author
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to problems of uncertainty, probability, and knowledge. He spent nearly two decades as a businessman and quantitative trader before becoming a full-time philosophical essayist and academic researcher in 2006. Although he spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés, he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute. His main subject matter is “decision making under opacity”—that is, a map and a protocol on how we should live in a world we don’t understand.
Taleb’s books have been published in forty-one languages.
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