The Bed of Procrustes
  • Published: 1 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141985022
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $29.99
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The Bed of Procrustes

Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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An updated edition with more aphorisms from one of our most iconoclastic thinkers

In a climate when iconoclasm is the smartest intellectual stance - whether against bankers, traders, politicians, the energy industry, or journalists - one of today's most prominent rabble-rousers gives his quick-witted and snappy guide to questioning the status quo.

With characteristic panache and brio, Taleb uses aphorisms to condense his rambunctious ideas and style. This is the perfect reference for anyone searching for the right questions to ask.
  • Published: 1 December 2016
  • ISBN: 9780141985022
  • Imprint: Penguin Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb has devoted his life to immersing himself in problems of luck, uncertainty, probability and knowledge. Part literary essayist, part empiricist, part no-nonsense mathematical trader, he is currently Dean's Professor in the Science of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His last book, the bestseller Fooled by Randomness, has been published in eighteen languages and was selected by Fortune magazine as one of "The Smartest Books of All Time". Taleb lives mostly in New York.

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Praise for The Bed of Procrustes

Like Twain and Wilde before him, Taleb eats paradoxes for breakfast... The aphorism is Taleb to a tee. It showcases his wit and learning, and provides ways to fillet his enemies. All his usual suspects are present to be corrected: bankers, fools, politicians, journalists... Present, too, are his heroes: the curious, the intellectually anarchistic, the idle philosopher

James Kidd, Independent on Sunday

[A] quirky, entertaining collection of aphorisms, covering everything from the web to the injuriousness of doing too much work... a wry, often hila­rious glimpse

Robert Collins, The Times