Michael Lewis

Journalist, Non-Fiction Author

Michael Lewis is an American author and financial journalist renowned for his ability to make complex subjects compelling through vivid storytelling and memorable characters. His bestseller Moneyball revealed how data analytics revolutionised professional baseball, while The Big Short provided a gripping account of the individuals who foresaw the 2008 financial crisis. His work consistently illuminates hidden systems and the mavericks who challenge conventional wisdom.

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Books by Michael Lewis

The Undoing Project

by Michael Lewis

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Lewis chronicles Kahneman and Tversky's partnership, whose research revealed systematic errors in human judgement. Their work rewrote our understanding of how minds actually work under uncertainty.

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

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Lewis follows the handful of investors - Michael Burry, Steve Eisman, and others - who recognised the subprime mortgage bubble and bet against it via credit default swaps. Lewis argues that Wall Street's catastrophe was not a black swan but a predictable failure of incentives, complexity, and willful blindness that a few outsiders saw clearly.

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Going Infinite

by Michael Lewis

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Lewis embeds with Sam Bankman-Fried before and during the collapse of FTX. A portrait of a man whose intellectual gifts and moral blindness together produced one of the great financial frauds.

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Most Recommended by Michael

The books Michael Lewis references, cites, and recommends most frequently.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

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Kahneman reveals that our minds run on two systems: fast intuition and slow deliberation. Most errors in judgement come from trusting System 1 when the situation demands System 2's careful analysis.

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The Black Swan

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Taleb argues that rare, unpredictable events drive history far more than gradual trends. Our models systematically underestimate extreme outcomes, with devastating consequences.

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Fooled by Randomness

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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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.

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Predictably Irrational

by Dan Ariely

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Ariely demonstrates through experiments that human irrationality is not random but systematic and predictable. Understanding these patterns reveals why we make the same costly mistakes repeatedly.

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Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)

by Carol Tavris

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Tavris and Aronson explore how cognitive dissonance drives people to justify mistakes rather than learn from them. Self-justification is an unconscious engine that distorts memory, fuels feuds, and corrupts institutions.

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Who Michael draws from, and who draws from Michael — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.

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