Antifragile (book)

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Hardcover, 1st edition
Author	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Incerto
Subject	Philosophy, mathematics, business, economics
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Random House (US) Penguin Books (UK)
Publication date	November 27, 2012
Media type	Print, E-book
Pages	519 pp
ISBN	1-400-06782-0
Dewey Decimal	155.24 TA
Preceded by	The Bed of Procrustes
Followed by	Skin in the Game

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random House in the United States and Penguin in the United Kingdom. This book builds upon ideas from his previous works including Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007–2010), and The Bed of Procrustes (2010–2016), and is the fourth book in the five-volume philosophical treatise on uncertainty titled Incerto. Some of the ideas are expanded on in Taleb's fifth book Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (2018).