[PDF] Boomerang Travels In The New Third World eBook

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393082245

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“Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his generation.”—Kyle Smith, Forbes The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 32,23 MB
Release : 2011-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393081818

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Explores the causes of the 2008 American financial crisis, and looks at similar situations that have occurred in other parts of the world.

Author : Michael M. Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393048136

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Tells the unlikely story of Silicon Valley through the life of one of its great achievers--Jim Clark, who founded Silicon Graphics and Netscape and may be on the verge of another trillion-dollar company.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 039333869X

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The author recounts his experiences on the lucrative Wall Street bond market of the 1980s, where young traders made millions in a very short time, in a humorous account of greed and epic folly.

Author : George J. Borjas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 21,93 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393249026

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From "America’s leading immigration economist" (The Wall Street Journal), a refreshingly level-headed exploration of the effects of immigration. We are a nation of immigrants, and we have always been concerned about immigration. As early as 1645, the Massachusetts Bay Colony began to prohibit the entry of "paupers." Today, however, the notion that immigration is universally beneficial has become pervasive. To many modern economists, immigrants are a trove of much-needed workers who can fill predetermined slots along the proverbial assembly line. But this view of immigration’s impact is overly simplified, explains George J. Borjas, a Cuban-American, Harvard labor economist. Immigrants are more than just workers—they’re people who have lives outside of the factory gates and who may or may not fit the ideal of the country to which they’ve come to live and work. Like the rest of us, they’re protected by social insurance programs, and the choices they make are affected by their social environments. In We Wanted Workers, Borjas pulls back the curtain of political bluster to show that, in the grand scheme, immigration has not affected the average American all that much. But it has created winners and losers. The losers tend to be nonmigrant workers who compete for the same jobs as immigrants. And somebody’s lower wage is somebody else’s higher profit, so those who employ immigrants benefit handsomely. In the end, immigration is mainly just another government redistribution program. "I am an immigrant," writes Borjas, "and yet I do not buy into the notion that immigration is universally beneficial…But I still feel that it is a good thing to give some of the poor and huddled masses, people who face so many hardships, a chance to experience the incredible opportunities that our exceptional country has to offer." Whether you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or an Independent, We Wanted Workers is essential reading for anyone interested in the issue of immigration in America today.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393066797

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The classic warts-and-all portrait of the 1980s financial scene. The 1980s was the most outrageous and turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and as an investment banker and later financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fueled the decade.

Author : Michael M. Lewis
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,39 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Current Events
ISBN :

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From the author of the bestselling "Liar's Poker" comes a wickedly funny and astute chronicle of the 1996 presidential campaign--and how Americans go about choosing their leaders at the turn of the century. A striking look at our culture and its politics and the mammoth unlikelihood of connection between the inauthentic modern candidate and the voter's passions and desires, "Losers" is sure to be a winner. 10 photos.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0393881563

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New York Times Bestseller For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the president insisted there was nothing to worry about. Fortunately, we are still a nation of skeptics. Fortunately, there are those among us who study pandemics and are willing to look unflinchingly at worst-case scenarios. Michael Lewis’s taut and brilliant nonfiction thriller pits a band of medical visionaries against the wall of ignorance that was the official response of the Trump administration to the outbreak of COVID-19. The characters you will meet in these pages are as fascinating as they are unexpected. A thirteen-year-old girl’s science project on transmission of an airborne pathogen develops into a very grown-up model of disease control. A local public-health officer uses her worm’s-eye view to see what the CDC misses, and reveals great truths about American society. A secret team of dissenting doctors, nicknamed the Wolverines, has everything necessary to fight the pandemic: brilliant backgrounds, world-class labs, prior experience with the pandemic scares of bird flu and swine flu…everything, that is, except official permission to implement their work. Michael Lewis is not shy about calling these people heroes for their refusal to follow directives that they know to be based on misinformation and bad science. Even the internet, as crucial as it is to their exchange of ideas, poses a risk to them. They never know for sure who else might be listening in.

Author : Barbara Garson
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0307475980

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One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies. The Great Recession has thrown huge economic challenges at almost all Americans save the super-affluent few, and we are only now beginning to reckon up the human toll it is taking. Down the Up Escalator is an urgent dispatch from the front lines of our vast collective struggle to keep our heads above water and maybe even—someday—get ahead. Garson has interviewed an economically and geographically wide variety of Americans to show the painful waste in all this loss and insecurity, and describe how individuals are coping. Her broader historical focus, though, is on the causes and consequences of the long stagnation of wages and how it has resulted in an increasingly desperate reliance on credit and a series of ever-larger bubbles—stocks, technology, real estate. This is no way to run an economy, or a democracy.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 36,42 MB
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393330478

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Story of Michael Oher, a rising gridiron star, who was rescued from the ghettos of Memphis and placed with a wealthy family to help develop his football skills.