Michael Lewis

Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money.

The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Moneyball

Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.

The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game

When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer this question, taking readers into the mind of Bankman-Fried, whose rise and fall offers an education in high-frequency trading, cryptocurrencies, philanthropy, bankruptcy, and the justice system. Both psychological portrait and financial roller-coaster ride, Going Infinite is Michael Lewis at the top of his game, tracing the mind-bending trajectory of a character who never liked the rules and was allowed to live by his own--until it all came undone.

The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Going Infinite

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 collapse so spectacularly? Michael Lewis was there when it happened, having got to know Bankman-Fried during his epic rise. In Going Infinite he tells us a story like no other, taking us through the mind-bending trajectory of a character who never liked the rules and was allowed to live by his own. Both psychological portrait of a preternaturally gifted 'thinking machine', and wild financial roller-coaster ride, this is a twenty-first-century epic of high-frequency trading and even higher stakes, of crypto mania and insane amounts of money, of hubris and downfall. No one could tell it better.

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 a story about the workings of the human mind; about the failures and triumphs of human judgement and imagination. It's the story of how we got to now.

A Pandemic Story

The Premonition

Premonition

Autor best-seller do The New York Times, Michael Lewis examina como uma teoria premiada com o Nobel de Economia alterou para sempre a nossa percepção da realidade.O projeto desfazer conta a envolvente história da parceria de dois psicólogos israelenses cujo trabalho deu origem ao livro Rápido e devagar: Duas formas de pensar e transbordou a psicologia, influenciando áreas como economia, medicina e gestão de negócios. Ambos tiveram carreiras importantes no meio universitário e no Exército de Israel, e suas pesquisas são profundamente conectadas às suas experiências pessoais.Amos Tversky era o centro das atenções em qualquer lugar que estivesse, um guerreiro extrovertido e autoconfiante. Já Danny Kahneman, um filho do Holocausto, é um fugitivo da guerra que se tornou um homem introvertido, inseguro, sempre se questionando em relação às suas próprias ideias. Michael Lewis conta esta parceria se tornou uma das mais importantes da história do meio científico, e esmiúça os métodos de trabalho da dupla. O entrosamento era tamanho que eles não conseguiam saber quem havia tido determinada ideia e quem deveria ter o crédito por ela. Invariavelmente, decidiam no cara e coroa quem seria o autor principal do trabalho e apenas alternavam a autoria do artigo seguinte.Ao contar a história desta amizade que transformou a nossa forma de pensar, Michael Lewis nos ajuda a entender a perigosa influência da memória e dos estereótipos nos nossos processos de avaliação. Além disso, nos mostra que confiar apenas no nosso instinto pode os levar à decisão errada e que a incerteza deve ser levada muito em conta quando estamos tomando decisões importantes. Assim, a história de Tversky e Kahneman nos dá lições de como fazer previsões, nos ajudando a tomar melhores decisões nas nossas vidas.

A amizade que mudou nossa forma de pensar

O projeto desfazer

Em A jogada do século, Michael Lewis, considerado um dos principais escritores de economia da atualidade, constrói uma crônica muito bem articulada sobre como o colapso financeiro de 2008 se desenrolou, passo a passo, além de revelar os principais personagens de Wall Street envolvidos na crise, tudo permeado de um humor ácido, em uma narrativa instigante. O livro inspirou o filme A grande aposta, com direção de Adam McKay e elenco composto por Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling e Brad Pitt. O filme foi indicado para 3 categorias do Globo de Ouro de 2016: Melhor filme, Melhor roteiro e tanto Christian Bale quanto Steve Carell foram indicados para a categoria de Melhor ator.

A história do colapso financeiro de 2008 que deu origem ao filme A Grande Aposta

A jogada do século

O mundo dos esportes leva à loucura milhares de fãs que acompanham de perto cada partida, aflitos com as possibilidades criadas pelo acaso. Mas um homem se recusou a aceitar a suposta aleatoriedade de uma das maiores paixões dos americanos: o beisebol. Como gerente geral de um dos times de menor orçamento da grande liga, Billy Beane impôs uma gestão mais racional, uma nova perspectiva sobre o beisebol, e usou um alto conhecimento em matemática para determinar o modo de jogar e selecionar os atletas contratados pela equipe. Moneyball é a saga em busca do segredo do sucesso do Oakland Athletics sob seu comando.Numa narrativa repleta de personagens fascinantes e questionamentos inteligentes, Michael Lewis mostra a luta de um administrador para levar seu empreendimento à máxima performance pelo menor custo, e impor racionalidade num universo dominado por favorecimentos, desperdício e vícios. É a história de superação de um time medíocre e a biografia de um homem que se destacou num dos negócios mais ferozes e competitivos dos Estados Unidos.“Um dos melhores livros sobre beisebol – e sobre negócios – já escrito. Merece um lugar no Hall da Fama do Beisebol.”Forbes-

O homem que mudou o Jogo

A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Undoing Project

Nigel Slack

Operations Strategy

'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 collapse so spectacularly? Michael Lewis was there when it happened, having got to know Bankman-Fried during his epic rise. In Going Infinite he tells us a story like no other, taking us through the mind-bending trajectory of a character who never liked the rules and was allowed to live by his own. Both psychological portrait of a preternaturally gifted 'thinking machine', and wild financial roller-coaster ride, this is a twenty-first-century epic of high-frequency trading and even higher stakes, of crypto mania and insane amounts of money, of hubris and downfall. No one could tell it better.

The Rise and Fall of A New Tycoon

Undoing Democracy

Fifth Risk

Un'amicizia da Nobel. Kahneman e Tversky, l'incontro che ha cambiato il nostro modo di pensare

From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfire of the Vanities, funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale of hysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosed world.

Liar's Poker

Liar's Poker Ss

Despite Heidegger's identifying his own thought with 'ethics' in the most original sense, his understanding of ethics has been criticised both for its supposed ignorance of the role of the other human being and for its relation to politics. This book contends that, in fact, it is Heidegger's own notion of 'being-with' -his rethinking of intersubjectivity- which demonstrates precisely what is wrong with his early work and demands that the place of ethics be rethought. Heidegger and the Place of Ethics shows how this rethinking occurs in Heidegger's own laterwork. In particular, the crossing out of the earlier work in the turn to the later allows us to think 'being-with' as essential to a Heideggerian ethics and to rethink the relationship between ethics and politics which previously issued in Heidegger's engagement with Nazism. This rethinking of ethics and politics in light of the originality of 'being-with' brings us before a hitherto unnoticed proximity between Heidegger's later work and the Lacanian political thought of Slavoj Žižek among others; it thereby opens up the possibility of a politically progressive Heideggerianism, and many unexpected encounters with thinkers generally considered to be separated from Heidegger by an abyss.

Michael Allan Mallory

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