Michael Lewis

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

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 beisbol, perdio a sus tres mejores jugadores. Sin embargo, unos meses mas tarde, y contra todo pronostico, consiguio el record absoluto de partidos ganados de manera consecutiva, y logro uno de los disputados puestos en los playoffs de la Liga. Esta es la historia de como se obro aquel pequeño milagro y de como un fracasado exjugador de beisbol y un ingeniero obsesionado con la estadistica cambiaron para siempre la historia del deporte.Uno de los mejores libros de periodismo que nunca se hayan escrito, un clasico deportivo que condensa en sus paginas toda la epica, la fascinacion y los dramas que confluyen dentro de un equipo. Una narrativa llena de personajes fabulosos en la que Michael Lewis nos lego uno de los libros mas originales y revolucionarios que jamas se hayan escrito.

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

Michael Lewiss instant classic may be "the most influential book on sports ever written" (People), but "you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewiss] thoughts about it" (Janet Maslin, New York Times).One of GQ''s 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century A Kirkus Review Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far) Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyonebut then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games?In a quest to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers not only the single most influential baseball book ever (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what may be the best book ever written on business (Weekly Standard). Lewis first looks to all the logical placesthe front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the minds of brilliant playersbut discovers the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors.What these numbers prove is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information had been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics. He paid attention to those numbers?with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to?to conduct an astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted.In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to winhow can we not cheer for David?

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.

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

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