On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

BOOK SUMMARY

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our era of risk—and the players raising the stakes.

In a world wired for chaos, these players are rewriting the rules. High-stakes, high-IQ, and often high on their own mythologies, they are driving the next era of finance, tech, and politics. But what happens when their bets go too far?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nate Silver is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise. He writes the Substack Silver Bulletin and lives in New York, New York.

PRAISE

“Our recent politics have been seen as a conflict between coastal elites and Middle Americans. It is a divide, roughly, between the rich and the not-so-rich, the influential and the ignored. Mr. Silver focuses on a different fault line, the one between the risk-takers and the risk-averse.”
—Eric Felten, Wall Street Journal

“Engaging and entertaining…Silver describes how the decision-making methods of the professional gambler have spread to encompass a wide swath of human activities.”
—Tim Wu, New York Times Book Review

“Engrossing…a meditation on risk, a study of those most comfortable taking it and an invitation for the rest of us to think about what it means that so much more of our lives now seems to hang on it.”
—David Wallace-Wells, New York Times

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Trade paperback
576 pages
Non-fiction
8.4 in H | 5.4 in W | 1.2 in T | 1 lb