Skin in the Game

Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Collection Business

304 pages, parution le 28/02/2019

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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".

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 flaneur, 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.

L'auteur - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Libano-New-Yorkais, Nassim Nicholas Taleb est écrivain, ancien trader, statisticien et philosophe des sciences du hasard. Depuis 2007, il est l'un des essayistes les plus lus et les plus traduits dans le monde. Il a été le seul à avoir anticipé la crise financière et son ampleur. Taleb se consacre aujourd'hui à l'écriture et enseigne les rapports entre l'épistémologie des probabilités et les sciences de l'incertitude, et notamment la "prise de décision en situation d'opacité" à l'université de New York où il a reçu le titre de Distinguished Professor ainsi qu'au Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne où il est professeur invité. Best-seller traduit en trente-trois langues, son premier ouvrage, Le Hasard sauvage, a paru aux Belles Lettres en 2005. Le Cygne Noir (Les Belles Lettres, 2007) a été vendu à trois millions d'exemplaires dans le monde. Antifragile est le troisième volet de cette philosophie aux vertus tonifiantes.