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Boomerang: The Biggest Bust by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
Right now, Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi, and hairdressing is classified as arduous for tax avoidance purposes. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as owners collect the insurance to p ...Show more
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
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 beco ...Show more
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
Michael Lewis, the Master of the Big Story, is back with Flash Boys. If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is dead. Now, the world's money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Eve ...Show more
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller is now available in Encore at a great low price.A small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the US stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together―some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries―to investigate, expose, ...Show more
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
$55.00 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular financial collapses 'I asked him how much it would take for him to sell FTX and go do something other than make money. He thought the ...Show more
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Reading Level: very good
Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-da ...Show more
Liar's Poker: From the author of the Big Short by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics | Series: Hodder Great Reads Ser.
From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfir ...Show more
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics | Reading Level: very good
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in Baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-bedget Oakland Athletic's visionary general manager Billy Beane, and a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. The ...Show more
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics | Reading Level: good
From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, the Big Short, Michael Lewis' No.1 bestseller, tells the outrageous story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a killin ...Show more
The Big Short : Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
$39.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
"The Big Short" tells a story of spectacular, epic folly. It has taken the world's greatest financial meltdown to bring Michael Lewis back to the subject that made him famous. His international bestseller "Liar's Poker" exposed the greed and carnage of the City and Wall Street in the 1980s; he wrote it ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can't pay their ...Show more
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Reading Level: very good
When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine, and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real ...Show more