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

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Mistakes People Make When They Evaluate People

Lewis says he's most interested in how people got misvalued by markets. If professional baseball players could be over or undervalued, who couldn't? Lewis: There's a whole wing of psychology devoted to the mistakes people make when they do things like evaluate a person for a job.

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