Michael Lewis

The Excellent book. Michael Lewis has written from the perspective of a financial insider for more than 20 years. His first book, Liar's Poker, was a warts-and-all account of Wall Street culture in the 1980s, when Lewis worked at the investment bank Salomon Brothers. Everything Lewis has touched since has turned to gold, and The Big Short seems to be another of those books, combining an incendiary, timely topic with the author's solid, insightful, and witty investigative reporting.

Michael Lewis turns the inquiry on its head to create a fresh, character-driven narrative brimming with indignation and dark humor, a fitting sequel to his number-one best-selling Liar's Poker. "Who got it right?" he asks. Who saw the ever-rising real-estate market for the black hole it would become, and eventually made billions of dollars from that perception? And what qualities of character made those few persist when their peers and colleagues dismissed them as Chicken Littles? Out of this handful of unlikely - really unlikely - heroes, Lewis fashions a story as compelling and unusual as any of his earlier best sellers, proving yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of our times.

Wie gelangen wir zu unseren Entscheidungen, und warum liegen wir so oft daneben?
Daniel Kahneman war sich immer sicher, dass er sich irrte. Amos Tversky war sich immer sicher, dass er recht hatte. Der eine nimmt alles ernst, für den anderen ist das Leben ein Spaß. Die beiden weltberühmten Psychologen und Begründer der Verhaltensökonomie haben mit ihrer gemeinsamen Forschung unsere Annahmen über Entscheidungsprozesse völlig auf den Kopf gestellt.

Quando Michael Lewis lo incontra per la prima volta, Sam Bankman-Fried è un giovane fisico multimilionario e geniale cui il mondo guarda come al «grande Gatsby» delle criptovalute. Catapultato quasi da un giorno all'altro nella classifica degli uomini più ricchi del pianeta stilata da «Forbes» nel 2021, Bankman-Fried vede il suo tempo e il suo denaro ferocemente contesi dalle aziende, dalle celebrità e dai leader politici di tutto il mondo. Ma chi è questo ragazzo di buona famiglia, in pantaloni corti e calzini bianchi, i cui occhi guizzano sullo schermo rimbalzando da una riunione Zoom all'altra mentre gioca ai videogame?

Le livre sur la crise qui enflamme les États-Unis. Ouvrez-le, vous comprendrez pourquoi. À l'automne 2008, les principales places boursières se sont effondrées dans le sillage de Wall Street, plongeant du même coup le monde dans la crise. Si le désastre financier fut une surprise pour beaucoup, quelques-uns l'avaient néanmoins anticipé….