The bed of Procrustes :
by Taleb, Nassim. frey50
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : Random House, (New York :) , 2010 Physical details: xii, 112 p. ; 21 cm. ISBN:9781400069972 (alk. paper); 1400069971 (alk. paper); 9781400069972 (alk. paper).| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 800 - 899 | 818.602 Tal (Browse shelf) | Available | 96839 |
Procrustes -- Preludes -- Counter narratives -- Matters ontological -- The sacred and the profane -- Chance, success, happiness, and stoicism -- Charming and less charming sucker problems -- Theseus, or, living the Paleo life -- The republic of letters -- The universal and the particular -- Fooled by randomness -- Aesthetics -- Ethics -- Robustness and fragility -- The ludic fallacy and domain dependence -- Epistemology and subtractive knowledge -- The scandal of prediction -- Being a philosopher and managing to remain one -- Economic life and other very vulgar subjects -- The sage, the weak, and the magnificent -- The implicit and the explicit -- On the varieties of love and nonlove -- The end -- Postface.
By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses 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.