Skin in the Game (Over 3 million copies sold worldwide)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb exposes civilization's most dangerous defect: systems that cannot learn because decision-makers never face consequences. From Hammurabi's stone code to Robert Rubin's $120 million bonus, from Libyan slave markets to the Bob Rubin trade, he traces how asymmetry corrupts everything it touches. The Minority Rule, ergodicity, and the wolf-and-dog parable reveal why the paranoid survive while the confident eventually don't—and why your instinct to distrust the polished expert is mathematically sound.

You'll learn:

- Why ensemble probability and time probability produce opposite outcomes

- How 0.3% of the population determines what everyone drinks

- What Constantine XI's death proved that no credential can