MARC Record from Harvard University

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020 $a9781400069972 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPN6271$b.T35 2010
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100 1 $aTaleb, Nassim Nicholas,$d1960-
245 14 $aThe bed of Procrustes :$bphilosophical and practical aphorisms /$cNassim Nicholas Taleb.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$cc2010.
300 $axii, 112 p. ;$c21 cm.
505 0 $aProcrustes -- 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.
520 $aBy 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.
650 0 $aAphorisms and apothegms.
650 0 $aHuman behavior$xQuotations, maxims, etc.
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