by Michael Lewis
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.
In this collection, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine references 4 other books.
It draws on The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness and Predictably Irrational.
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Lewis draws directly on Taleb's Black Swan framework of fat-tailed risk and financial blindness to frame why the crisis was missed by mainstream Wall Street
Lewis builds on Taleb's Fooled by Randomness argument that traders confuse luck with skill, showing how mortgage desks mistook systemic risk for clever innovation
Lewis's portrait of investor psychology echoes Ariely's Predictably Irrational account of how anchoring and social proof distort financial judgement
Lewis documents the same self-justifying confabulation Tavris describes in Mistakes Were Made, as bankers rationalized obviously flawed CDOs as sound innovations
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