Every economist, journalist, book reviewer, professor, anyone who is not part of an “active and transactional life” is an inveterate idiot, unless he or she is one of a handful Taleb respects, who also seem to be his very close friends. Yet a style runs strong and consistent through each of the three books, trenchant beyond all imagining, and is its own kind of wit. Skin in the Game has more in common, in the way its ideas are structured and their application, with Black Swan. The Black Swan, a soaraway success praised for its prophetic power and intense relevance, looked – just before the financial crash of 2007 – at “high-impact, unexpected” events at those disasters that result when you underestimate the complexity of systems and, at its simplest, when you assume that because you’ve never seen one, black swans don’t exist.Īntifragile, which had more of a pop-philosophy feel, advised how to take advantage of modern randomness and volatility. He presents it sometimes as part of a triptych with his earlier works The Black Swan and Antifragile, and at other times as a continuation, each book “just as Eve came out of Adam’s ribs”, seeding the central idea of the next.
Skin in the Game is Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s fifth book.
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