- Information asymmetry, Sociological aspects, Risk-taking (Psychology), Risk
The phrase "skin in the game" is one we have often heard but have rarely stopped to truly dissect. It is the backbone of risk management, but it's also an astonishingly complex worldview that, as Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows in this book, applies to literally all aspects of our lives.
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- Author
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 292
- Publisher
- BELLES LETTRES, Penguin Verlag, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- French, German, English
- ISBN
- 9782251447599
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