Titles in the Set:

The Black Swan
Antifragile 
The Bed of Procrustes 
Skin in the Game

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Format :Paperback
ISBN : 9787778247080

The Black Swan:

This book is all about Black Swans: the random events that underlie our lives, from bestsellers to world disasters. Their impact is huge; they're impossible to predict; yet after they happen we always try to rationalize them.

Antifragile:

In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb stands uncer­tainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary. The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust.

The Bed of Procrustes:

Why are we so often unwilling to accept that life is unpredictable? Nassim Nicholas Taleb distils his idiosyncratic wisdom to demolish our illusions, contrasting the classical values of courage, elegance and erudition against modern philistinism and phoniness.

Skin in the Game:

Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have more slaves today than in Roman times? Why does imposing democracy on other countries never work? The answer: too many people running the world don't have skin in the game.

About the Author:

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, and former trader known for his works on randomness, uncertainty, and risk, including the influential The Black Swan and Antifragile, which explore how systems benefit from disorder, part of his five-volume Incerto series. Wikipedia's page details his background, education (Paris, UPenn), focus on applied epistemology, and key concepts like "Black Swans" and "Antifragility," positioning him as a major thinker on uncertainty and probability.