Roland Martin: What do you think is the crux of what they undid, if it was an undoing project, this friendship. We should get on to behavou economics, and what are their greatest insight s? They made two big tions; one was to this field of judgment, where they uncover cognitive bias. And then there's a more sterile study of gambols - trying to figure out why people reverse preferences which aren't supposed to be done.
Michael Lewis is one of the most successful non-fiction authors alive. In a series of titles that have sold 9 million copies worldwide, he has lifted the lid on the biggest business stories of our times, enthralling readers with his knack for humanising complex subjects and giving them the page-turning urgency of the best thrillers. Liar’s Poker is the cult classic that defined Wall Street during the 1980s; Moneyball was made into a film with Brad Pitt; Boomerang was a breakneck tour of Europe’s post-crunch economy; and The Big Short was made into a major Oscar-winning film starring Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell. In November 2017 Lewis came to the Intelligence Squared stage, where he was joined by economics journalist Stephanie Flanders, to discuss his work.
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