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- Book Title
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Publication Date
- 2018-02-27
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 042528462X
- Publication Name
- Skin in the Game : Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Series
- Incerto Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 20 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A bold work from the author of The Black Swan that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibility In his most provocative and practical book yet, one of the foremost thinkers of our time redefines what it means to understand the world, succeed in a profession, contribute to a fair and just society, detect nonsense, and influence others. Citing examples ranging from Hammurabi to Seneca, Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump, Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows how the willingness to accept one's own risks is an essential attribute of heroes, saints, and flourishing people in all walks of life. As always both accessible and iconoclastic, Taleb challenges long-held beliefs about the values of those who spearhead military interventions, make financial investments, and propagate religious faiths. Among his insights: - For social justice, focus on symmetry and risk sharing. You cannot make profits and transfer the risks to others, as bankers and large corporations do. You cannot get rich without owning your own risk and paying for your own losses. Forcing skin in the game corrects this asymmetry better than thousands of laws and regulations. - Ethical rules aren't universal. You're part of a group larger than you, but it's still smaller than humanity in general. - Minorities, not majorities, run the world. The world is not run by consensus but by stubborn minorities imposing their tastes and ethics on others. - You can be an intellectual yet still be an idiot. "Educated philistines" have been wrong on everything from Stalinism to Iraq to low-carb diets. - Beware of complicated solutions (that someone was paid to find). A simple barbell can build muscle better than expensive new machines. - True religion is commitment, not just faith. How much you believe in something is manifested only by what you're willing to risk for it. The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly rich worldview that, as Taleb shows in this book, applies to all aspects of our lives. As Taleb says, "The symmetry of skin in the game is a simple rule that's necessary for fairness and justice, and the ultimate BS-buster," and "Never trust anyone who doesn't have skin in the game. Without it, fools and crooks will benefit, and their mistakes will never come back to haunt them."
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
042528462x
ISBN-13
9780425284629
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038292100
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Skin in the Game : Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Series
Incerto Ser.
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.4in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hm1101.T35 2018
Reviews
Praise for Nicholas Nassim Taleb "[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne." -- The Wall Street Journal "The most prophetic voice of all . . . [Taleb is] a genuinely significant philosopher . . . someone who is able to change the way we view the structure of the world through the strength, originality and veracity of his ideas alone." --GQ "[Taleb] pulls the reader along with the logic of a Socrates." --Chicago Tribune "Changed my view of how the world works." --Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate "Taleb's insatiable polymathic curiosity knows no bounds." --New Statesman
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
Information Theory, Business Ethics, Political Economy, Sociology / General, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General
Lccn
2017-047111
Dewey Decimal
302/.12
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Computers, Business & Economics, Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
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- Apr 03, 2018
Leaders need this book.
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- Oct 22, 2019
Will get you thinking.
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- Oct 02, 2018
Another thought-provoking and timely masterpiece from Taleb.
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