false 41132589 793473 5878377 0743583663 9780743583664 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5878377.Panic_The_Story_of_Modern_Financial_Insanity 3.00 3 A masterful account of today's money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe.

When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. Michael Lewis is our jungle guide through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history: the crash of '87, the Russian default (and the subsequent collapse of Long-Term Capital Management), the Asian currency crisis of 1999, the Internet bubble, and the current sub-prime mortgage disaster. With his trademark humor and brilliant anecdotes, Lewis paints the mood and market factors leading up to each event, weaves contemporary accounts to show what people thought was happening at the time, and then, with the luxury of hindsight, analyzes what actually happened and what we should have learned from experience.

As he proved in Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, and Moneyball, Lewis is without peer in his understanding of market forces and human foibles. He is also, arguably, the funniest serious writer in America.]]> 776 4.00 11186 1863 2311973 3.00 3 2 2683568 3.00 3 2 2008 3 0 false Tue Jan 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Dec 28 18:19:30 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 07 12:25:41 -0800 2009
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