Magali garcia ramis biography of michael lewis

Michael Lewis was born in , in New Orleans. His father worked as a corporate lawyer and his mother was a community activist. He attended Princeton University, where he studied art history. At first, Lewis went on to pursue a career in art. He worked for a New York art dealer after graduating from college, but quit when he realized that very few opportunities existed for an art history graduate working in the arts.

Disillusioned with his original chosen field, Lewis went on to attend the London School of Economics in He pivoted toward a focus in economics and a career in finance, believing this was one of the few ways to make enough money to get by. After some years spent in New York, he relocated to London through the company to work as a bond salesman.

On the whole, however, he would look back on this time negatively; in hindsight, he came to see that Salomon Brothers and other such companies on Wall Street were run very inefficiently, with no regard for their investors or for the general American public. He resigned upon deciding that the industry was not for him for these reasons, and went on to begin a career as a financial journalist.

The book is about the corruption and inefficiency he observed on Wall Street during his time working as a bond salesman in the late '80s. This first book was very well-received, and became one of the defining accounts of the Wall Street of the s. In , he published his second book, The New New Thing , about Silicon Valley and its obsession with innovating at a fast pace.

This book was not quite as popular, but continued to build Lewis's portfolio of writing about finance.

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These two books helped him to hone his statistical and analytical writing, this time on the subject of the economics of sports. Moneyball even went on to be made into a major motion picture, released in and starring Brad Pitt. In The Big Short , published in , Lewis profiles several people who were able to predict the housing crisis well before anyone else did.