Skin In The Game: Hidden Asymmetries In Daily Life

Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Price : 35.00 AUD
ISBN : 9780241300657
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited
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Weight (g) : 0.396
Publication date : 01 January 2018
Dimensions : 234mm X 153mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Availability date : 01 March 2018
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Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Edition : 1
Pages : 279
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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 this provocative book, 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.