Michael Lewis (1) (1960–)
Forfatter af Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 15, 1960. He received a BA in art history from Princeton University in 1982 and a Masters in economics from the London School of Economics in 1985. He is a non-fiction author/journalist of mostly financial themes. His books include Liar's vis mere Poker, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, The Money Culture, Boomerang, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine and The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Michael Lewis, author of the best-sellers Moneyball, The New, New Thing, Liar's Poker, and others at a Hudson Union Society event in 200. Photo by Justin Hoch at http://www.jhoch.com
Værker af Michael Lewis
Pacific Rift: Adventures in the Fault Zone Between the US and Japan (The Larger Agenda Series) (1991) 63 eksemplarer
Inside Wall Street's Black Hole 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Bidragyder — 180 eksemplarer
The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s (1973) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 125 eksemplarer
Floating off the page : the best stories from the Wall Street journal's "Middle column" (2002) — Forord — 118 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Lewis, Michael Monroe
- Fødselsdato
- 1960-10-15
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Bopæl
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Uddannelse
- Princeton University
London School of Economics - Erhverv
- bond trader
journalist
author - Relationer
- Soren, Tabitha (wife)
- Organisationer
- Salomon Brothers
The New York Times
Bloomberg
Slate
The Spectator
The New Republic (vis alle 8)
Condé Nast Portfolio
Vanity Fair - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2013)
- Kort biografi
- Michael Lewis lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Movie… af Michael Lewis
If you want to really understand what was so badly wrong about the US financial system during the naughties and why its stupidies brought about the Global Financial Crisis you couldn’t do better than read this book, which is as gripping as a novel. Lewis, who was once a stock market trader himself, is well placed to describe and explain the madness of the trading in financial derivatives based on hundreds of thousands of mortgages granted to poor people who couldn’t afford them.
This is the story of Michael Oher and the Tuohy family. It is also the story of the evolution of football.
Michael was a homeless kid in Memphis when he was adopted by the Tuohy family. Sean and Leigh Anne have two biological children, Collins and SJ (Sean Jr). Michael integrates into the family, but not without issues. He needs a lot of tutoring and guidance in life as well as school. He grew up thinking he'd be the next Michael Jordan and enjoyed playing basketball but eventually found football. The book goes into his life with the Tuohy's, the tutoring he needed to get his grades up to get into college, getting into college and the NCAA investigation into his acceptance to college. Sean and Leigh Anne were Ole Miss graduates (as was Mike's tutor) and very strong supporters of the school. (They even had an Ole Miss Christmas tree in their house).
The book was well-written and I found that the movie was pretty true to the book. I did end up skipping over some of the football sections. There is an afterword in the paperback edition that gives an update on Michael and the Tuohy family since the book had first been published.… (mere)
Michael was a homeless kid in Memphis when he was adopted by the Tuohy family. Sean and Leigh Anne have two biological children, Collins and SJ (Sean Jr). Michael integrates into the family, but not without issues. He needs a lot of tutoring and guidance in life as well as school. He grew up thinking he'd be the next Michael Jordan and enjoyed playing basketball but eventually found football. The book goes into his life with the Tuohy's, the tutoring he needed to get his grades up to get into college, getting into college and the NCAA investigation into his acceptance to college. Sean and Leigh Anne were Ole Miss graduates (as was Mike's tutor) and very strong supporters of the school. (They even had an Ole Miss Christmas tree in their house).
The book was well-written and I found that the movie was pretty true to the book. I did end up skipping over some of the football sections. There is an afterword in the paperback edition that gives an update on Michael and the Tuohy family since the book had first been published.… (mere)
The author applies the formula of The Big Short to the covid pandemic.
My jaw dropped when he describes hospitals not using a free (and fast) university testing lab and all the reasons that lead to it.
For a book that the author himself confesses is opportunistic and a field out of his traditional expertise, I found the book incredibly captivating.
I had expected more cheap trump bashing, but no, the author really takes a system perspective, inspecting the role of political appointees to replace career experts, the causes behind institutional risk aversion, the shift from television to everyone-is-a-broadcaster and many similar phenomenon.
The book also taught me stuff on how genomic sequencing was a game changer and other advances in the public health that you do not notice while following the daily news cycle.
Useful and captivating.
In a few years back, I think this book will remain relevant. I believe the author managed to elevate it to something more than an opportunistic boom of the moment.… (mere)
My jaw dropped when he describes hospitals not using a free (and fast) university testing lab and all the reasons that lead to it.
For a book that the author himself confesses is opportunistic and a field out of his traditional expertise, I found the book incredibly captivating.
I had expected more cheap trump bashing, but no, the author really takes a system perspective, inspecting the role of political appointees to replace career experts, the causes behind institutional risk aversion, the shift from television to everyone-is-a-broadcaster and many similar phenomenon.
The book also taught me stuff on how genomic sequencing was a game changer and other advances in the public health that you do not notice while following the daily news cycle.
Useful and captivating.
In a few years back, I think this book will remain relevant. I believe the author managed to elevate it to something more than an opportunistic boom of the moment.… (mere)
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