Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Format Paperback | 304 pages

Dimensions 129 x 198 x 17mm | 224g

Publication date 28 Feb 2019

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Language English

ISBN10 0141982659

ISBN13 9780141982656

內容簡介

黑天鵝遍佈的世界中，反脆弱的關鍵是認清非對稱風險；堅持風險共擔，是應對不確定性的核心原則。

塔勒布，被稱為我們這個時代深刻的思想者之一。本書是塔勒布“不確定性”系列叢書中的思想結晶，承接上一本書《反脆弱》的一根肋骨——不能犧牲他人利益來增強自身的反脆弱能力，探討了人們應該在實踐中親歷風險，規避生活中隱藏的非對稱性風險，從而做出正確的決定。

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".