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.
No — but he does have a knack for stumbling into the perfect moment, including the recent FTX debacle. In this installment of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, we revisit the book that launched the analytics revolution.