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1st November 2012: Antifragile

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Alex Burns

 

Philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has a new book out soon: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder (New York: Random House, 2012).

 

Taleb spoke to EconTalk a year ago about Antifragile and “how we can cope with our ignorance and uncertainty in a complex world.”

Posted in Diary and tagged Antifragile, Black Swans, Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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