The beginning of moneyball got stolen by Iranian secret agents. "I'm at the mercy of accident with every book, the whole of my career," he says. Do you think much about the role of luck in your career, good or bad? "As a broad matter, I think we'd all be better off if we saw the luck more clearly"
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.