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16. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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Michael Lewis' Liars Poker

Michael Lewis' first book, Liars Poker, was published in the 1980s. It's part memoir and part exposé of Wall Street money-harvesting industry. He recently went back to reread it; he didn't like what he saw. "I don't think most of what goes on on Wall Street is evil," says Lewis.

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