Incerto Hardcover

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The landmark five-book investigation of uncertainty, chance, volatility, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand--now in a beautifully designed, cloth-bound deluxe hardcover boxed set. Nassim Nicholas Taleb's New York Times bestselling series--consisting of Antifragile, The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, The Bed of Procrustes, and Skin in the Game--has changed the way millions see the world and think about uncertainty, chance, volatility, and risk across a wide range of domains. They can be read singly but are also written to complement each other and actually comprise a single work. The Incerto is that collection, newly designed and boxed (now including his most recently published book, Skin in the Game) to offer readers the full scope of the most significant and impactful intellectual projects of our time. In Fooled by Randomness, Taleb explores the impact of one of the least understood forces in all of our lives--randomness--and its effects in the forum in which luck is most conspicuously mistaken for skill: the world of business. In The Black Swan, Taleb shows us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. The Bed of Procrustes, a provocative book of aphorisms, represents Taleb's view of modern civilization's hubristic side effects--modifying humans to satisfy technology and blaming reality for not fitting economic models. In Antifragile, Taleb identifies a category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and thrive. Skin in the Game shows how the willingness to accept one's own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life.

9781984819819

English

Random House

4/Jun/2019

1856

Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent two decades as a risk taker before becoming a full-time essayist and scholar focusing on practical and philosophical problems with chance, luck, and probability. His focus in on how different systems handle disorder. He now spends most of his time in the intense seclusion of his study, or as a flâneur meditating in cafés. In addition to his life as a trader he spent several years as a Distinguished Professor at New York University's School of Engineering and also as Dean's Professor at U. Mass Amherst. Taleb's books--Antifragile, Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan and The Bed of Procrustes--have more than one hundred translations in thirty-five languages.