Books like Next by Michael Lewis

A tale of baseball and economics

Michael Lewis explains how the 2008 financial crisis unfolded, focusing on subprime mortgages, CDOs, and the people who bet against the collapsing market.

A deep dive into how behavioral economics reshaped our understanding of decision making through pioneering Israeli psychological research and its impact on evidence‑based policy.

A candid, semi‑autobiographical look at 1980s Wall Street, following Michael Lewis from Princeton art history student to bond salesman at Salomon Brothers, exposing the culture of greed, humor, and intense competition that defined the era.

Michael Lewis exposes how political short‑sightedness threatens U.S. programs from food stamps to the Census to nuclear oversight, revealing the unsung public servants who keep the government’s critical functions running.

An incisive look at the global financial crisis of 2008‑2009, tracing how cheap credit, speculative bubbles, and international finance left the United States and Europe vulnerable to collapse.

"This is a book about technology, and about rules. It is about what happens when technology moves faster than governments, creating markets that - for some time at least - have no rules. It is a book about the pioneers who thrive in a world of chaos and the governments that eventually rein them in.". "Beginning with the development of the compass in the early Middle Ages, Debora Spar takes the reader back in time, looking at a series of technological revolutions that promised, in their time, to transform the worlds of politics and business. She tells tales of the printing press and maps; of telegraph, radio, and satellite television; of software, encryption, and the advent of digital music. At each of these junctures, she suggests, technological innovation leads to both a wave of commerce and of chaos. Entrepreneurs such as Samuel Morse and Rupert Murdoch carve new markets from the emerging technology and proclaim that the old rules no longer apply."--BOOK JACKET.

Jeremy Rifkin explores a future where nearly every activity becomes a paid experience, arguing that the commodification of human time is reshaping society and questioning whether relationships can survive outside the commercial sphere.

A groundbreaking book that explores a paradigm shift in American culture through the lens of a single entrepreneur's vision of the future of the Internet.

Entrepreneur Andrew Keen warns of what he sees as a narcissistic and cancerous culture developing with the invent of Web 2.0, whereby professionals are put out of business and the value of the media that we consume drops immensely.

How far will some unscrupulous companies go to keep the truth about their dealings from the American investor? Farther than the eye can see, according to this account by Einhorn, the founder of Greenlight Capital, a long-short value-oriented hedge fund. Einhorn's firm has achieved greater than a 25 percent annualized net return for its investors since 1996, proof that Einhorn can literally put his money where his mouth is. At a charity investment conference he did just that, and told the world he had become alarmed by the practices of Allied Capital and had sold it short. The result was near-chaos for Allied, but its minions retaliated through powerful connections in Washington, resulting in Einhorn being investigated by the SEC. In the meantime, Allied continues on, making Einhorn the target of its anger.

Ideas That Created the Future collects forty-six classic papers in computer science that map the evolution of the field. It covers all aspects of computer science: theory and practice, architectures and algorithms, and logic and software systems, with an emphasis on the period of 1936–1980 but also including important earlier work. Offering papers by thinkers ranging from Aristotle and Leibniz to Alan Turing and Nobert Wiener, the book documents the discoveries and inventions that created today's digital world. A brief essay by volume editor Harry Lewis, offering historical and intellectual context, accompanies each paper. Readers will learn that we owe to Aristotle the realization that fixed rules of logic can apply to different phenomena—that logic provides a general framework for reasoning—and that Leibniz recognized the merits of binary notation. They can read Ada Lovelace's notes on L. F. Menabrea's sketch of an analytical engine, George Boole's attempt to capture the rules of reason in mathematical form, David Hilbert's famous 1900 address, “Mathematical Problems,” and Alan Turing's illumination of a metamathematical world. Later papers document the “Cambrian era” of 1950s computer design, Maurice Wilkes's invention of microcode, Grace Hopper's vision of a computer's “education,” Ivan Sutherland's invention of computer graphics at MIT, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman's pioneering work on encryption, and much more. Lewis's guided tour of a burgeoning field is especially welcome at a time when computer education is increasingly specialized.