Michael Lewis

La excepcional crónica del crac inmobiliario que originó la mayor crisis de los últimos 80 años. Descubre el libro en el que se ha inspirado la película que ya ha sido nominada a cinco Óscar. La gran apuesta es la excepcional cronica del crac inmobiliario que origino la mayor crisis de los ultimos ochenta años. Cuando en otoño de 2008 la economia estadounidense se hundio, arrastrando tras de si a buena parte del mundo desarrollado a una crisis de la que aun no hemos salido, a un grupo de personas no le sorprendio en absoluto. Eran unos cuantos inversores y analistas inteligentes que habian comprendido lo que estaba pasando, pero no dijeron nada, paralizados por el miedo y las posibles ganancias. La pregunta clave que plantea Michael Lewis es: ¿quien se dio cuenta del riesgo que suponia dar por sentado que los precios del sector inmobiliario seguirian siempre al alza? Un riesgo complicado, ademas, por la creacion de esos activos extraños y artificiales a partir de hipotecas dudosas. Para contestar esta pregunta, Lewis nos presenta una historia increible a traves de los personajes que la protagonizaron, plena de indignacion y oscura ironia.Reseñas:Probablemente el mejor libro de periodismo financiero de la historia.Felix Salmon, Reuters El mejor contador de historias de nuestra generacion.Malcolm Gladwell Nadie escribe con mayor agilidad narrativa sobre dinero y finanzas que Michael Lewis. Logra usar las historias de sus protagonistas para explicar la avaricia, la estupidez y la hipocresia de un sistema con una carencia notoria de supervision seria. Con un estilo parecido al de Tom Wolfe, Lewis consigue introducir al lector de modo colorido en el mundo darwiniano del mercado de bonos.Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Michael Lewis examina en este brillante libro cómo la amistad entre David Kahneman y Amos Tversky revolucionó radicalmente nuestra manera de entender el funcionamiento de la mente humana. Hace más de cuarenta años, una serie de experimentos totalmente originales de dos jovenes psicologos, Daniel Kahneman y Amos Tversky, desmontaron todas las suposiciones existentes respecto al funcionamiento de la mente humana y la toma de decisiones. Deshaciendo errores es el maravilloso relato de la colaboracion de estos dos hombres de ciencia que bien podrian ser grandes figuras literarias. Heroes academicos y belicos -ambos tuvieron una importante carrera militar- sus investigaciones estuvieron profundamente ligadas a sus experiencias vitales. Tversky era un personaje brillante, con un magnetismo inusual, confiado y extrovertido; Kahneman, un fugitivo de la represion nazi durante su infancia, era un introvertido que se cuestionaba todo lo que le rodeaba. Su relacion fue tan cercana, que resulta imposible saber de que mente surgieron que ideas: son de lejos el duo mas fascinante de la historia de la psicologia conductiva. En su estilo habitual, Lewis nos ofrece un libro magistral sobre un tema pionero, explorado a traves de las personalidades de dos asombrosos individuos tan fundamentalmente opuestos que sorprende que llegasen a ser amigos, tan siquiera colegas, pero que en el proceso cambiaron radicalmente la manera de entender como pensamos y por que nos equivocamos tan facilmente.Reseña:Michael Lewis es el mejor contador de historia de nuestra generacion.Malcolm Gladwell

La historia inolvidable de cómo un grupo de apasionados desafió las reglas del béisbol y conquistó el mundo. A inicios de 2002, los Oakland Athletics, uno de los equipos más pobres de la liga profesi

INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NO 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Extraordinary The Observer A stupefyingly pleasurable book to read New Yorker Lewis s storytelling is as good as ever The Economist From the 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys the high octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century s most spectacular financial collapses I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money He thought the question over One hundred and fifty billion dollars he finally said though he added that he had use for infinity dollars Sam Bankman Fried wasn t just rich Before he turned thirty he d become the world s youngest billionaire making a record fortune in the crypto frenzy CEOs celebrities and world leaders vied for his time At one point he considered paying off the entire national debt of the Bahamas so he could take his business there Then it all fell apart Who was this Gatsby of the crypto world a rumpled guy in cargo shorts whose eyes twitched across TV interviews as he played video games on the side who even his million dollar investors still found a mystery What gave him such an extraordinary ability to make money and how did his empire col

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Superb It is tremendous fun tremendously told The Times A fluid intellectual thriller Daily Telegraph From the global bestselling author of The Big Short the gripping story of the maverick scientists who hunted down Covid 19 It s a foreboding she said A knowing that something is looming around the corner Like how when the seasons change you can smell Fall in the air right before the leaves change and the wind turns cold In January 2020 as people started dying from a new virus in Wuhan China few really understood the magnitude of what was happening Except that is a small group of scientific misfits who in their different ways had been obsessed all their lives with how viruses spread and replicated and with why the governments and the institutions that were supposed to look after us kept making the same mistakes time and again This group saw what nobody else did A pandemic was coming We weren t prepared The Premonition is the extraordinary story of a group who anticipated traced and hunted the coronavirus who understood the need to think differently to learn from history to question everything and to do all of this fast in order to act to save lives communities society itself It s

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened: nothing. People don't notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from funding free school meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events. It steps in where private investment fears to tread, innovates and creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk. And now, government is under attack. By its own leaders. In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and venality that is fuelling the destruction of a country's fabric. All of this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk of all. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.

Lewis brilliantly describes Clark''s intensity and passion, his genius for technology and leadership and his impatience with convention. He also faithfully chronicles Clark''s ruthlessness, willingness to exact revenge on opponents and ability to casually upset people''s lives. The fact that these last qualities are described in almost complimentary terms reflects a Silicon Valley sensibility that they''re laudable. Los Angeles Times Book Review

Michael Lewis returns to the financial world with a new book that gives readers a ringside seat as the biggest story in years prepares to hit Wall Street.

Roars along like a manic comic novel...an insiders description of the peculiar macho culture of investment banking."—Los Angeles Times. In fiction there was Bonfire of the Vanities; in reality, there is Liar's Poker—the fascinating insider's account of what really happens on Wall Street. This irreverent and hilarious birds-eye view of Wall Street's heyday will appeal to anyone intrigued by the allure of million dollar deals.