Journalist, Author
Andrew Ross Sorkin is an American financial journalist, anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box, and founder of The New York Times' DealBook. His bestselling book Too Big to Fail chronicled the 2008 financial crisis from inside the boardrooms of Wall Street.
by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Sorkin delivers a blow-by-blow reconstruction of the 2008 financial crisis from inside the rooms where Wall Street CEOs and Treasury officials scrambled to prevent systemic collapse. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, he documents the Lehman bankruptcy, the AIG bailout, and the TARP negotiations as a drama of personalities, leverage, and mutual dependence.
The books Andrew Ross Sorkin references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb argues that rare, unpredictable events drive history far more than gradual trends. Our models systematically underestimate extreme outcomes, with devastating consequences.
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Taleb exposes how we underestimate luck in life and markets, mistaking random outcomes for skill. Survivorship bias and narrative fallacy lead us to build false stories around chance events.
Who Andrew draws from, and who draws from Andrew — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.