The Bed of Procrustes

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1400069971

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect. Download The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. br>
The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit his bed to perfection by either stretching them or cutting their limbs. It represents 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.

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Playful and irreverent, these aphorisms will surprise you by exposing self-delusions

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