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Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist known for his works on economics and finance, including Liar’s Poker, The Big Short, and Moneyball. His writing often explores the intersection of human behavior, markets, and systemic risk.
Known for: Flash Boys, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, Going Infinite, Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, The Big Short, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, The Fifth Risk, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Books by Michael Lewis
Flash Boys
Flash Boys is a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis that investigates the rise of high-frequency trading (HFT) on Wall Street. It follows a group of traders and technologists who uncover how the U.S. sto...
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
In this nonfiction work, Michael Lewis explores the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis by traveling to countries that were most affected by the economic collapse, including Iceland, Greece,...
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt is a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis that investigates the rise of high-frequency trading (HFT) in the U.S. equity market. It follows a group of Wall Street insiders ...
Going Infinite
A nonfiction narrative exploring the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, and the world of cryptocurrency finance. Michael Lewis provides an insider’s account of Bankman-Fried’s amb...
Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
Liar’s Poker is Michael Lewis’s semi-autobiographical account of his experiences as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s. The book offers a vivid, often satirical portrayal of Wall Street ...
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game es un libro de no ficción que narra cómo el gerente general de los Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, utilizó análisis estadísticos avanzados para construir u...
The Big Short
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis that explores the build-up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s which led to the 2007–2008 financial crisi...
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis that explores the build-up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s which led to the 2007–2008 financial crisi...
The Fifth Risk
The Fifth Risk explores the hidden dangers that threaten the U.S. government’s ability to function effectively, focusing on the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations. Michael Lewis re...
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
A gripping narrative that follows a group of scientists, public health officials, and medical visionaries who foresaw the dangers of a pandemic long before COVID-19 struck. Michael Lewis explores how ...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
The book explores the extraordinary collaboration between psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose groundbreaking work on human judgment and decision-making laid the foundation for behavi...
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The Fragmented Market and the Birth of Confusion
Brad Katsuyama worked on Wall Street but was stationed far from its glamorous towers—at the Royal Bank of Canada, where trading screens made him feel more like an engineer monitoring signals than a traditional stockbroker. Yet even from this distance, he sensed something wrong. When he tried to buy ...
From Flash Boys
The Revelation: Speed as the New Power
Brad’s quest for clarity led him into the engineering depths of trading. His unlikely partner in this intellectual excavation was Ronan Ryan—a man who understood the language of fiber-optic networks, not financial theory. Together, they retraced the physical geography of the market. They discovered ...
From Flash Boys
Iceland – The Financial Overreach
When I first landed in Iceland, it felt as if I had discovered a country that had woken up inside a dream of wealth. Here was a fishing nation that had, almost overnight, reinvented itself as a financial hub. The transformation was breathtaking and absurd in equal measure. Icelandic fishermen, who j...
From Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Greece – The Culture of Debt
Traveling to Greece felt like stepping into the opposite of Iceland. Where Iceland’s crisis was born from too much faith in itself, Greece’s was rooted in a national habit of evading accountability. The numbers simply didn’t add up—deficits were hidden, tax collection was a fiction, and bureaucracy ...
From Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Brad Katsuyama’s Discovery: The Invisible Theft
When Brad Katsuyama started noticing that his trading screens were lying to him, he couldn’t at first articulate what was wrong. Working at the Royal Bank of Canada, he would try to buy a stock at a displayed price—only to see that price vanish before his order could land. The pattern was maddeningl...
From Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
The Speed Machine: Cables, Co-Location, and Control
To understand how the markets became rigged by speed, I had to enter the world of the speed merchants themselves. The turning point came with the spread of fiber-optic lines—buried glass threads connecting the electronic exchanges from Chicago to New Jersey. The project cost hundreds of millions and...
From Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
About Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist known for his works on economics and finance, including Liar’s Poker, The Big Short, and Moneyball. His writing often explores the intersection of human behavior, markets, and systemic risk.
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