INCERTO

Clearing the discourse of abuses and abusers. The more you institutionalize rules of ethical behavior that should be voluntary (say…

When selecting a surgeon for your next brain procedure, should you pick a surgeon who looks like a butcher or one who looks like a surgeon…

(Skin in the Game was embargoed (meaning no copy was sent to reviewers), as the book explains the agency problem of reviewers. Three UK…

A central chapter that crystallizes all my work. In forth. Skin in the Game

[One of the more technical (and optional) chapters, at the end of Skin of the Game]

Taste of turtle — Where are the new customers? –Sharia and asymmetry — There are the Swiss, and other people –Rav Safra and the Swiss

(Excerpts from Skin in the Game) Sontag is about Sontag — Virtue is precisely what you don’t show

How to be a whistleblower –Delenda Monsanto — James Bond isn’t a Jesuit priest, but he is a bachelor –so are both Professor Moriarty and…

Peace: Neither Ink nor Blood (Chapter in SITG)

Excerpted from the preface of Skin in the Game

Symmetry, symmetry everywhere — Belief and worship requires an entry fee — The Gods do not like cheap signaling.

(Chapter from Skin in the Game)

The salesman is the boss — How to drink poison — Advertising and manipulation

Dead horse in your bed — Friendship via poisoned cake –Roman Emperors and U.S. presidents –A living enemy is worth ten dead ones

Literature doesn’t look like literature –Business plans are for suckers — Donaldo Hiring practitioners –the glory of bureaucracy–teach a…

Don’t eat their cheesecake– Meta-experts judged by meta-meta-experts– Prostitutes, nonprostitutes, and amateurs — Popper compatibility

The Static and the Dynamic — How to go bankrupt and be loved by the many –Piketty’s equals