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Lewis, Michael

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 profesional de béisbol, perdió a sus tres mejores jugadores. Sin embargo, unos meses más tarde, y contra todo pronóstico, consiguió el récord absoluto de partidos ganados de manera consecu...

Michael Lewis / Lewis, Michael

Sam Bankman-Fried es un genio fascinante e incomprendido. Con esa pinta de bohemio, siempre desaliñado, despeinado y desgarbado, nadie hubiera imaginado que se convertiría en el multimillonario más joven del mundo. De igual manera, nadie hubiera sospechado que, más tarde, lo enjuiciarían y tratarían como un "supervillano depravado" con "motivaciones oscuras y megalómanas". Mich...

Michael Lewis

"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 ...

Lewis, Michael

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 jóvenes psicólogos, Daniel Kahneman y Amos Tversky, desmontaron todas las suposiciones existentes respecto a...

Lewis, Michael

Los ochenta. Wall Street. Ningún libro ha definido mejor ni de forma más mordaz una era dominada por la cultura de la codicia, la frivolidad y la ambición desmesurada. Tras completar sus estudios en Princeton y en la London School of Economics, Michael Lewis entró a trabajar en Salomon Brothers, uno de los mayores bancos de inversión del mundo. Lewis nos relata en primera per...

Michael Lewis

"Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason." —William Easterly, Wall Street Journal Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original papers that invented the field of behavioral economics. One of the greatest partnerships i...

Lewis, Michael

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized...

Lewis, Michael

Verano de 2009. El FBI detiene a Sergey Aleynikov, un ex trabajador de Goldman Sachs acusado de robar el código fuente de su antigua empresa. A Aleynikov, programador de operaciones comerciales de alta frecuencia, se le niega la libertad bajo fianza alegando que, de caer en malas manos, el código robado puede usarse para manipular los mercados de forma injusta. ...

Lewis, Michael

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar's Poker.Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street's premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a m...

Michael Lewis

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business...

Lewis, Michael

"Guaranteed to make blood boil." Janet Maslin, New York TimesIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious new ways that Wall Street genera...

Michael Lewis

What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were s...

Michael Lewis

The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower--and middle--class Americans who can't pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were...