Skin in the game : hidden asymmetries of daily life

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Label

Skin in the game : hidden asymmetries of daily life

Title remainder

hidden asymmetries of daily life

Statement of responsibility

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Creator

• trueTaleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-

Author

• trueTaleb, Nassim Nicholas, 1960-

Subject

• Risk -- Sociological aspects
• Risk-taking (Psychology) -- Social aspects
• trueCharacter
• trueUncertainty (Information theory) -- Social aspects
• trueTrust
• trueInformation asymmetry -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

A book about challenging long-held beliefs about risk, reward, politics, religion and finance. How can a stubborn minority easily end up ruling? Should you take advice from a salesperson? Is the pope atheist? More than the foundation of risk management, skin in the game is an astonishingly complex worldview that, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows in this provocative book, applies to all aspects of our lives and drives history. In his inimitable style, he draws on everything from Antaeus the Giant to Donald Trump to Seneca to the ethics of disagreement to how to buy a used car, to create a jaw-dropping tapestry for understanding this idea in a brand new way. Full of philosophical tales and practical stories, Skin in the Game offers a key rule to live by: do not do to others what you don't want them to do to you, with its practical extension: never take advice from someone who gives advice for a living

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

158.2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography