Nassim Nicholas Taleb, trader, NYU Tandon School of Engineering professor and author of The Black Swan, discusses his recent book Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Random House, 2018) -- the distrust of expertise and "monocultures" that result in abstract fields, like journalism or sociology, when peers confer status.

→EVENT: Hear more at his Barnes & Noble Business Breakfast on Thursday, April 12 at 7:30am at the Fifth Avenue B&N, 555 Fifth Avenue between 45th & 46th Streets.  Reservations info here.