The Bed of Procrustes
Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
25 October 2016
Summary
The author of the modern classics The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb expresses major ideas in ways you least expect in this collection of aphorisms and meditations—now expanded with fifty percent more material than the hardcover.
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from the Greek myth of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection, either by stretching them or by cutting their limbs. It represent…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812982404 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812982401 |
| Author: | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Trade Paperbacks |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 25 October 2016 |
| Weight: | 176g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 132mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Incerto |
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Praise for Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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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