Panic!

Resumen del libro

From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and hysteria that manage to grip the world but are all-too-soon forgotten.

In this unique collection of articles Michael Lewis - ex-trader and bestselling chronicler of greed and frenzy in the markets - casts a sceptical eye back over the most panicked-about panics of recent decades. He tells a story of boom and bust, deranged greed, outsized egos and over-inflated salaries, where the only thing that can ever be predicted is our constant inability to predict anything.

Using contemporary accounts from commentators such as Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Krugman, plus many of his own best writings, Michael Lewis gives us a completely new insight into how markets really operate - and who really knows what they're talking about.

Biografía del autor

Michael Lewis estudió Historia en Princeton y tiene un máster en Economía por la London School of Economics. Es periodista y autor de libros de gran éxito tales como Deshaciendo errores (Debate, 2017), Flash Boys (Deusto, 2014), Boomerang (Deus-to, 2012), La gran apuesta (Debate, 2013) o El póquer del mentiroso (Alienta, 2011), varios de los cuales han sido adaptados al cine. Asimismo, es columnista en Bloomberg View y sus artículos han sido publicados en revistas como Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Slate o Foreign Affairs.