SKIN IN THE GAME : Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Language: English Publication details: UK Allen Lane 2018/01/01Edition: 1Description: 279ISBN:- 9780241300657
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The bestselling author of The Black Swan and 'the hottest thinker in the world' (Sunday Times) is back with a book challenging many of our 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.
Contents
Book 1: Introduction
The Less Ovbious Aspects of Skin in the Game
Prologue Part 1 : Antaeus Whacked
Libya After Antacus
Ludis de Alieno Corio
Warlords are Still Around The Bob Rubin Trade
Systems Learn by Removing
Prologue Part 2: A brief Tour of Symmetry
1.From Hammurabi to Kant
Hammurabi in Paris
Silver Beats Gold
Fubgedaboud Universalism
II.From Knat to Fat Tony
Crook, Fool, or Tony
Crook, Fool, or Both
Causal Opacity and Preferences Revealed
Skin in the Game, but Not all the Time
III. Modernism
How to Beam Light on a Speaker
Simplicity
I Am Dumb Without Skin in the Game
Regulations vs, Legal Systems'
IV, Soul in the Game
Artisans
A Caaveat with entrepreneurs
Arrogant Will Do
Citizenship de Plaisance
Heroes Were Not Library Rats
Soul in the Game and Some (Not Too Much) Protectionism
Skin in the Ruling
Prologue, Part 3 : The Ribs of the Incerto
The Road
An Enhanced Detectoor
The Book Reviewers
Organization of the Book
Appendix : Asymmetries in Life and Things
Book 2 : A FIRST LOOK AT AGENCY
BOOK 3 : THAT GREATEST ASYMMETRY
BOOK 4 : WOLVES AMONG DOGS
BOOK 5 ; BEING ALIVE MEANS TAKING CERTAIN RISKS
BOOK 6 : DEEPER INTO AGENCY
BOOK 7 : RELIGION, BELIEF, AND SKIN IN THE GAME
BOOK 8: RISK AND RATIONALITY
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