Lewis: I was in the locker room of the oakland ays, interviewing players about what it felt like to be on this oddly managed team. He says when he saw them naked, they had cankles and fat rolls; just didn't look like professional athletes. The management told him that one of the things we look for are players who are physically defective in some way. Lewis: By using statistical analysis to get to their performance value, we can find, we can we know how good they are,. but the market is deceived by what they look like.
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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