In his inimitable, pugnacious style, Taleb creates a jaw-dropping framework for understanding this idea. Skin in the Game challenges our long-held beliefs about risk, reward, politics, religion and finance - and makes us rethink everything we thought we knew.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent twenty-one years as a risk taker before
becoming a researcher in philosophical, mathematical, and (mostly)
practical problems with probability. Although he spends most of his
time as a fl neur, meditating in cafes across the planet, he is
currently Distinguished Professor at New York University's Tandon
School of Engineering but self-funds his own research.
His books, Antifragile, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes and
Fooled by Randomness (part of a multi-volume collection called
Incerto, Latin for uncertainty), have been translated into
thirty-seven languages. Taleb has authored more than fifty
scholarly papers as backup to Incerto, ranging from international
affairs and risk management to statistical physics. He refuses all
awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into
competitive sports.
A thinker for uncertain times. . . If you want to better understand
populism, Trump, Brexit and the anti-establishment backlash then
Taleb, of no party or clique, is your man
*Sunday Times*
A great iconoclast. . . Taleb, a Wall Street trader turned
essayist, is a thinker touched by genius. . . The big picture he
presents is powerfully argued and offers myriad policy
implications
*The Times*
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*
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the Richard Wagner of uncertainty. While
the Ring Cycle of the German composer/librettist portrayed the
struggle of the gods in a series of operas, the Incerto series of
books by the Lebanese-American author is devoted to humans --
specifically how we deal with the endemic risk in our
all-too-finite existence
*Sunday Times*
As always with Taleb, this is a fascinating set of ideas. And he's
right. People with skin in the game learn how the game works.
Without it, they don't
*Evening Standard*
The author of The Black Swan is back with a simple warning: don't
buy what your neighbour is selling unless he owns some too. The
obvious application for this is investing, but Taleb has a much
broader domain. In a kind of philosophical Freakonomics, he takes
us from 5th-century wandering monks (banned by the church because
they were too free) to Donald Trump (his imperfections showed he
had skin in the game)
*Sunday Times Books of the Year*
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