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Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

Poker player and polling superstar Nate Silver on his new book On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

Big stakes poker player and elections analyst Nate Silver is no stranger to a calculated risk.

In his new book, On The Edge, he makes the case that people willing to take massive calculated risks are winning in the modern economy.

Tim Harford talks to Nate about the mindset that鈥檚 driving hedge fund managers, crypto true-believers and silicon valley investors.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Beth Ashmead Latham
Series producer: Tom Colls
Sound mix: Nigel Appleton

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