From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and hysteria that manage to grip the world but are all-too-soon forgotten. In this unique collection of articles Michael Lewis - ex-trader and bestselling chronicler of greed and frenzy in the markets - casts a sceptical eye back over the most panicked-about panics of recent decades. He tells a story of boom and bust, deranged greed, outsized egos and over-inflated salaries, where the only thing that can ever be predicted is our constant inability to predict anything. Using contemporary accounts from commentators such as Joseph Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs and Paul Krugman, plus many of his own best writings, Michael Lewis gives us a completely new insight into how markets really operate - and who really knows what they're talking about.

迈克尔?刘易斯，美国超级畅销书作家，毕业于美国普林斯顿大学和英国伦敦经济学院，曾任所罗门兄弟公司的债券交易员，后为《纽约时报》撰稿，并担任英国《观察家周刊》的美国版编辑。他的成名作《说谎者的扑克牌》被公认是描写20世纪80年代华尔街文化的经典名作