Antifragile — Nassim Taleb — Similar Books & Further Reading

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• A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder: How Crammed Closets, Cluttered Offices, and On-the-Fly Planning Make the World a Better Place. — Abrahamson, Eric, and David H. Freedman
• Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty. — Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty.
• Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours. — Arikha, Noga
• The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade — Aubet, Maria Eugenia
• Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart — Ayres, Ian
• The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science — The Devil’s Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
• Universe of Stone: A Biography of Chartres Cathedral. — Ball, Philip
• The Evolution of Technology — The Evolution of Technology
• I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words — Beahm, George
• The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism 1680–1800 — Bell, David A.
• The Myths of Innovation — Berkun, Scott
• The Crooked Timber of Humanity. — Berlin, Isaiah
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. — Bernstein, Peter L.
• The Discovery of Insulin — Bliss, Michael
• Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy — Bostrom, Nick
• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built. — Brand, Stewart,
• At Home: A Short History of Private Life. — Bryson, Bill
• Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea, and Our Difficulty Swallowing It. — Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea, and Our Difficulty Swallowing It.
• 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. — Chang, H. J.,
• Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. — Collins, Harry
• The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250–1600. — Crosby, Alfred W.
• The Secret History of the War on Cancer. — Davis, Devra,
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else. — De Soto, H.,
• Investment Under Uncertainty. — Dixit, A. K. and R. S. Pindyck
• History of Medicine: A Scandalously Short Introduction. — Duffin, Jacalyn
• The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good. — Easterly, William
• The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900 — Edgerton, David
• The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal. — Franklin, James,
• The Economics of Industrial Innovation. — Freeman, C., and L. Soete
• Complications: A Surgeon’s Note on an Imperfect Science. — Gawande, Atul,
• It’s Great! Oops, No It Isn’t: Why Clinical Research Can’t Guarantee the Right Medical Answers. — Gauch, Ronald R.,
• Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier. — Glaeser, E.,
• The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff. — Gold, Rich,
• Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharme Flacks. — Goldacre, B.
• Debt: The First 5000 Years. — Graeber, David
• Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives. — Grant, Ruth W
• Hayek on Liberty. — Gray, John,
• Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals. — Gray, John,
• The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death. — Gray, John,
• The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America. — Grob, Gerald N.,
• The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference. — Hacking, Ian,
• The Taming of Chance. — Hacking, Ian,
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion. — Haidt, J.,
• A History of Probability and Statistics and Their Applications Before 1750. — Hald, Anders,
• The Law of Athens: The Family and Property. — Harrison, A.R.W.,
• The Complete Guide to Option Pricing Formulas. — Haug, E. G.,
• Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity. — Holland, John H.,
• The Philosophy of Social Science: An Introduction. — Hollis, Martin,
• The Fertile Crescent, 1800–1914: A Documentary Economic History. — Issawi, Charles
• Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. — Jaynes, E. T.,
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. — Johnson, Steven
• Thinking, Fast and Slow. — Kahneman, D.,
• Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases. — Kahneman, P. Slovic, and A. Tversky,
• Scientific Discovery: Logic and Tinkering. — Kantorovich, Aharon,
• A Brief History of Disease, Science and Medicine: From the Ice Age to the Genome Project. — Kennedy, Michael T.,
• The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine. — Le Fanu, James,
• The Enterprise of Knowledge. — Levi, Isaac,
• Hammer and Tickle. — Lewis, Ben,
• Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA, — Lewontin, Richard,
• Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories Behind the Drugs We Use. — Li, Jie Jack,
• The Fractal Geometry of Nature. — Mandelbrot, Benoît B.
• Fractals and Scaling in Finance: Discontinuity, Concentration, Risk. — Mandelbrot, Benoît B.
• The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable. — Richard Herring
• Daily Life of the Ancient Romans. — Matz, David
• Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity. — McMahon, Darrin M.,
• The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions. — Meisenzahl, R., and J. Mokyr,
• The Institutional Causes of China’s Great Famine, 1959–61. — Meng, X., N. Qian, and P. Yared,
• Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs. — Meyers, Morton A., M.D.,
• Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life. — Miller, John H., and Scott E.
• Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing Before Cybernetics. — Mindell, D. A.,
• Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing. — Mitchell, Mark T.
• The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress. — Mokyr, Joel,
• The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy. — Mokyr, Joel,
• The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan. — Morris, Ivan I.,
• Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance. — North, Douglass C.,
• Trust: From Socrates to Spin. — O’Hara, Kieron
• Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects — Orlov, Dmitry,
• The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle. — Popkin, Richard
• Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine. — Porter, Roy
• Our Final Century: Will Civilisation Survive the Twenty-First Century? — Rees, Martin
• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves. — Ridley, Matt,
• Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. — Schumacher, E. F.,
• The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. — Schon, Donald,
• Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. — Scott, James C.,
• Epistemics and Economics: A Critique of Economic Doctrines — Shackle, G.L.S.
• Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms. — Smith, V. L.,
• Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation. — Sorabji, Richard,
• Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems. — Sornette, Didier,
• Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Self-organization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools, — Sornette, Didier,
• The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States — Steinmo, S.
• The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition. — Sternhell, Zeev
• Wisdom, Intelligence and Creativity Synthesized. — Sternberg, Robert J.,
• The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900. — Stigler, Stephen M.,
• Pasteur’s Quadrant: Basic Science and Techonological Innovation. — Stokes, Donald E.,
• The Significance of Philosophical Scepticism. — Stroud, Barry,
• On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done. — Sunstein, Cass,
• The Collapse of Complex Societies: New Studies in Archaeology. — Tainter, J.,
• Unmaking the West: “What-If?” Scenarios That Rewrite World History. — Tetlock, Philip E., Richard Ned Lebow, and Geoffrey Parker
• Lecturing Birds on Flying: Can Mathematical Theories Destroy the Financial Markets? — Triana, P.,
• Real Options: Managerial Flexibility and Strategy in Resource Allocation. — Trigeorgis, L.,
• The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life. — Trivers, Robert,
• Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall. — Turchin, P.,
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) — Vanderbilt, T.,
• Nature: An Economic History. — Vermeij, Geerat J.,
• Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems — Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems
• Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery — Waller, John,
• Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths. — Waterfield, Robin
• Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health. — Welch, H. Gilbert, Lisa M. Schwartz, and Steven Woloshin,
• Science and the Modern World. — Whitehead, Alfred North,
• Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China. — Winchester, Simon,
• Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates. — Wootton, David,
• The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life. — Zerubavel, Eviatar
• The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives. — Ziliak, S., and D. McCloskey