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Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Booklabria

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Bed of Procrustes

Human behaviorQuotations, maxims

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First published: 2010
Editions: 6 in 2 languages

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: Human behavior
Quotations, maxims
Aphorisms and apothegms

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6 in 2 languages

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