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Book 1	Introduction	p. 1
	The Less Obvious Aspects of Skin in the Game	p. 4
Prologue, Part 1	Antaeus Whacked	p. 7
	Libya After Antaeus	p. 8
	Ludis de Alieno Corio	p. 10
	Warlords Are Still Around	p. 11
	The Bob Rubin Trade	p. 12
	Systems Learn by Removing	p. 13
Prologue, Part 2	A Brief Tour of Symmetry	p. 16
I	From Hammurabi to Kant	p. 16
	Hammurabi in Paris	p. 16
	Silver Beats Gold	p. 19
	Fuhgedaboud Universalism	p. 20
II	From Kant to Fat Tony	p. 22
	Crook, Fool, or Both	p. 22
	Causal Opacity and Preferences Revealed	p. 24
	Skin in the Game, but Not All the Time	p. 27
III	Modernism	p. 27
	How to Beam Light on a Speaker	p. 28
	Simplicity	p. 29
	I Am Dumb Without Skin in the Game	p. 30
	Regulations vs. Legal Systems	p. 31
IV	Soul in the Game	p. 33
	Artisans	p. 34
	A Caveat with Entrepreneurs	p. 36
	Arrogant Will Do	p. 36
	Citizenship de Plaisance	p. 37
	Heroes Were Not Library Rats	p. 37
	Soul in the Game and Some (Not Too Much) Protectionism	p. 38
	Skin in the Ruling	p. 40
Prologue, Part 3	The Ribs of the Incerto	p. 41
	The Road	p. 42
	An Enhanced Detector	p. 43
	The Book Reviewers	p. 43
	Organization of the Book	p. 45
	Appendix: Asymmetries in Life and Things	p. 47
Book 2	A First Look at Agency	p. 49
Chapter 1	Why Each One Should Eat His Own Turtles: Equality in Uncertainty	p. 51
	A Customer Is Born Every Day	p. 51
	The Price of Corn in Rhodes	p. 54
	Equality in Uncertainty	p. 55
	Rav Safra and the Swiss	p. 57
	Members and Non-Members	p. 58
	Non Mihi non Tibi, sed Nobis (Neither Mine nor Yours, but Ours)	p. 60
	Are You on the Diagonal?	p. 61
	All (Literally) in the Same Boat	p. 62
	Talking One's Book	p. 63
	A Short Visit to the Doctor's Office	p. 64
	Next	p. 66
Book 3	That Greatest Asymmetry	p. 67
Chapter 2	The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dominance of the Stubborn Minority	p. 69
	Criminals with Peanut Allergies	p. 71
	Renormalization Group	p. 75
	The Veto	p. 76
	Lingua Franca	p. 77
	Genes vs. Languages	p. 79
	The One-Way Street of Religions	p. 80
	Decentralize, Again	p. 82
	Imposing Virtue on Others	p. 83
	Stability of the Minority Rule, a Probabilistic Argument	p. 84
	Popper-Goedel's Paradox	p. 85
	Irreverence of Markets and Science	p. 86
	Unus sed Leo: Only One but a Lion	p. 87
	Summary and Next	p. 88
Appendix to Book 3	A Few More Counterintuitive Things About the Collective	p. 89
	Zero-Intelligence Markets	p. 91
Book 4	Wolves Among Dogs	p. 93
Chapter 3	How to Legally Own Another Person	p. 95
	To Own a Pilot	p. 96
	From the Company Man to the Companies Person	p. 98
	Coase's Theory of the Firm	p. 100
	Complexity	p. 101
	A Curious Form of Slave Ownership	p. 101
	Freedom is Never Free	p. 102
	Wolves Among the Dogs	p. 103
	Loss Aversion	p. 105
	Waiting for Constantinople	p. 106
	Do Not Rock Bureaucristan	p. 107
	Next	p. 108
Chapter 4	The Skin of Others in Your Game	p. 109
	A Mortgage and Two Cats	p. 109
	Finding Hidden Vulnerabilities	p. 111
	How to Put Skin in the Game of Suicide Bombers	p. 113
	Next	p. 115
Book 5	Being Alive Means Taking Certain Risks	p. 117
Chapter 5	Life in the Simulation Machine	p. 119
	Jesus Was a Risk Taker	p. 120
	Pascal's Wager	p. 121
	The Matrix	p. 121
	The Donald	p. 122
	Next	p. 122
Chapter 6	The Intellectual Yet Idiot	p. 123
	Where to Find a Coconut	p. 123
	Science and Scientism	p. 124
	Intellectual Yet Philistine	p. 125
	Never Gotten Drunk with Russians	p. 126
	To Conclude	p. 127
	Postscript	p. 127
Chapter 7	Inequality and Skin in the Game	p. 128
	Inequality vs. Inequality	p. 128
	The Static and the Dynamic	p. 130
	Pikketism and the Revolt of the Mandarin Class	p. 133
	Cobbler Envies Cobbler	p. 135
	Inequality, Wealth, and Vertical Socialization	p. 136
	Empathy and Homophily	p. 137
	Data, Shmata	p. 137
	Ethics of Civil Service	p. 138
	Next	p. 140
Chapter 8	An Expert Called Lindy	p. 141
	Who Is the "Real" Expert?	p. 142
	The Lindy of Lindy	p. 143
	Do We Need a Judge?	p. 144
	Tea with the Queen	p. 145
	Institutions	p. 146
	Against One's Interest	p. 147
	Soul in the Game, Again	p. 148
	Science is Lindy-Prone	p. 148
	Empirical or Theoretic?	p. 149
	The Grandmother vs. the Researchers	p. 150
	A Brief Tour of Your Grandparents' Wisdom	p. 151
Book 6	Deeper Into Agency	p. 153
Chapter 9	Surgeons Should Not Look like Surgeons	p. 155
	Looking the Part	p. 155
	The Green Lumber Fallacy	p. 157
	Best-Dressed Business Plan	p. 158
	A Bishop for Halloween	p. 159
	The Gordian Knot	p. 160
	Overintellectualization of Life	p. 161
	Another Business of Intervention	p. 162
	Gold and Rice	p. 162
	The Compensation	p. 164
	Education as Luxury Good	p. 164
	A BS Detection Heuristic	p. 165
	Real Gyms Don't Look Like Gyms	p. 165
	Next	p. 166
Chapter 10	Only the Rich Are Poisoned: The Preference of Others	p. 167
	Venerium in Auro Bibitur	p. 168
	Large Funeral Homes	p. 169
	Conversation	p. 170
	Nonlinearity of Progress	p. 170
	Next	p. 171
Chapter 11	Facta non Verba (Deeds Before Words)	p. 172
	An Offer Very Hard to Refuse	p. 172
	The Assassins	p. 174
	Assassination as Marketing	p. 175
	Assassination as Democracy	p. 176
	The Camera for Skin in the Game	p. 176
Chapter 12	The Facts Are True, the News Is Fake	p. 178
	How to Disagree with Yourself	p. 178
	Information Doesn't Like to Be Owned	p. 179
	The Ethics of Disagreement	p. 181
	Next	p. 182
Chapter 13	The Merchandising of Virtue	p. 183
	The Public and the Private	p. 184
	The Virtue Merchants	p. 185
	To Be or to Seem?	p. 186
	Simony	p. 187
	Virtue Is About Others and the Collective	p. 188
	Unpopular Virtue	p. 188
	Take Risk	p. 189
Chapter 14	Peace, Neither Ink nor Blood	p. 190
	Mars vs. Saturn	p. 191
	Where Are the Lions?	p. 192
	History Seen from the Emergency Room	p. 193
	Next	p. 196
Book 7	Religion, Belief, and Skin in the Game	p. 197
Chapter 15	They Don't Know What They Are Talking About When They Talk About Religion	p. 199
	Belief vs. Belief	p. 201
	Libertarianism and Church-Free Religions	p. 202
	Next	p. 203
Chapter 16	No Worship Without Skin in the Game	p. 204
	The Gods Do Not Like Cheap Signaling	p. 204
	The Evidence	p. 207
Chapter 17	Is the Pope Atheist?	p. 208
	Religious in Words	p. 210
	Next	p. 210
Book 8	Risk and Rationality	p. 211
Chapter 18	How to Be Rational About Rationality	p. 213
	Ocular Deception	p. 214
	Ergodicity First	p. 214
	From Simon to Gigerenzer	p. 216
	Revelation of Preferences	p. 216
	What Is Religion About?	p. 217
	"Tawk" and Cheap "Tawk"	p. 219
	What Does Lindy Say?	p. 219
	The Nondecorative in the Decorative	p. 220
Chapter 19	The Logic of Risk Taking	p. 222
	Ergodicity	p. 225
	Repetition of Exposures	p. 226
	Who Is "You"?	p. 228
	Courage and Precaution Aren't Opposites	p. 230
	Rationality, Again	p. 230
	Love Some Risks	p. 231
	Naive Empiricism	p. 231
	Summary	p. 233
	Epilogue: What Lindy Told Me	p. 235
	Acknowledgments	p. 237
	Glossary	p. 239
	Technical Appendix	p. 243
	Notes	p. 255
	Bibliography	p. 259
	Index	p. 265

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