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Skin in the Game is the 2018 addition to Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s bestselling Incerto, a series of philosophical nonfiction works dedicated to exploring how uncertainty defines our world.
The book is a treatise on the necessity of skin in the game—the need for everyone to be held accountable for the consequences of their actions. In this guide, you’ll become familiar with Taleb’s unique way of making sense of the world and in the process discover game-changing insights in wide-ranging areas of life, such as business, science, history, and religion.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanon-born author and statistician. A provocateur in the academic world, Taleb is simultaneously lauded for his revolutionary insights and criticized for his bombastic, combative style.
Taleb draws heavily from his experience as a former options trader, to which he attributes his deep familiarity with risk and uncertainty. Taleb earned a PhD in management science from Paris Dauphine University and has researched and taught risk management and probability at institutions such as University of Massachusetts Amherst, Oxford University, and NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering.
He is the author of the critically acclaimed books Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007), and Antifragile (2012).
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