Michael Lewis
Moneyball
Moneyball follows the Oakland Athletics’ attempt to win with a small payroll by finding baseball value that conventional scouting and the market overlook. It asks whether evidence, disciplined spending, and better questions can compete with wealth—and shows what data can reveal, and what it cannot, about people and performance.
14 chapters
The Big Short
The Big Short traces how easy mortgage credit, opaque securitization, flawed ratings, and misaligned incentives turned a housing boom into a systemic financial gamble—and follows the few investors who recognized the danger early. It shows how to test consensus, models, collateral, incentives, and counterparties when apparent safety may be manufactured.
15 chapters