LSE Director's Dialogue
Date: Wednesday 21 April 2010
Time: 6.30-7.30pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Michael Lewis
Chair: Howard Davies
Update: Monday 19 April 10.00am, due to the disruption caused by volcanic activity in Iceland this event has been cancelled. This event will be rescheduled, full details of which will be on this webpage. LSE would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.
The era that defined the City and Wall Street may finally be over. Michael Lewis first exposed its greed and carnage in the international bestseller Liar's Poker. With the fires of the world's greatest financial meltdown still smouldering, Lewis returns to his old haunts to figure out what went so very wrong in his darkly humorous new account. The Big Short is a visceral tour to the heart of the money-making machine, traces the origins of the crisis and is a razor-sharp analysis of a new cast of compulsively fascinating characters that saw the whole thing coming, or actively drove our economy overboard.
Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics and Political Science (MSc Economics 1985). The New York Times bestseller, Liar's Poker is widely considered the book that defined Wall Street in the 1980s. He has written several other bestsellers including Home Game, Blind Side and Moneyball. Lewis is Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair and New York Times Magazine.
This event celebrates the publication of Michael Lewis latest book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine|.
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