Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Black Swan a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward politics and religion finance and personal responsibility Why should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why do companies go bust? How is it that we have more slaves today than in Roman times? Why does imposing democracy on other countries never work? The answer: too many people running the world don't have skin in the game. In his inimitable pugnacious style Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows that skin in the game applies to all aspects of our lives. It's about having something to lose and taking a risk. Citizens lab experimenters artisans political activists and hedge fund traders all have skin in the game. Policy wonks corporate executives theoreticians bankers and most journalists don't. 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.

TITLE: Skin in the Game

AUTHOR: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

SKU: 9780141982656

PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 28/02/2019

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 304

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm