Skin in the Game

About Incerto

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Skin in the Game (2018) is the fourth and most politically charged book of the Incerto series, arguing that the hidden asymmetry between risk and reward — where decision-makers bear no personal cost for bad decisions — is the source of most of the fragility, injustice, and dysfunction in modern institutions. The book develops Taleb's argument that having personal 'skin in the game' is both an ethical requirement and an epistemic one.