The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Libros - Random House - 9781400069972 - 30 de noviembre de 2010
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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto) 1st Printing edition

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto) 1st Printing edition

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, and Antifragile.

By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect.

The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents Taleb?s view of modern civilization?s hubristic side effects?modifying humans to satisfy technology, blaming reality for not fitting economic models, inventing diseases to sell drugs, defining intelligence as what can be tested in a classroom, and convincing people that employment is not slavery.

Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions you have been living with but never recognized.

With a rare combination of pointed wit and potent wisdom, Taleb plows through human illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness.

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 30 de noviembre de 2010
ISBN13 9781400069972
Editores Random House
Páginas 112
Dimensiones 137 × 207 × 16 mm   ·   258 g
Lengua English  

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