The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing (Oxford University Press: 2009) is a book by political scientists Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat. Bremmer and Keat are President and Research Director, respectively, of Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy.
In The Fat Tail, Bremmer and Keat discuss a broad range of political risks, including geopolitical, country, and micro-level risks. They explain these political risks, and lay out how to effectively recognize, communicate, and mitigate them. Investors, corporate decision-makers, and policymakers who operate in countries with seemingly opaque or unpredictable political systems will find the book useful for planning and responding to risks, as will those operating in open systems that are subject to changing political winds. The Fat Tail offers a way to understand political risks so that they can be eliminated, minimized, isolated, or avoided.
Strategy+Business magazine selected The Fat Tail as one of the best business books of 2009.
The Hindu calls The Fat Tail a "recommended addition to the strategists’ shelf."
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