I have recently been reading Nassim Taleb's "Skin in the Game", one of the books from the "Incerto" series, and found the whole thing quite illuminating. Taleb combines a huge amount of historical knowledge with a razor-sharp tongue and a furious dismissal of academics who take themselves too seriously. The main point of the book is to make you aware of hidden asymmetries in everyday life in general and the financial world in particular. One of the things that stayed with me is the idea that a small, stubborn minority can end up calling the shots for everyone else. Consider...