Michael Lewis
Mar 31 2010 6:30 pm
Mar 31 2010 8:30 pm
We are delighted to host, together with the Princeton Alumni Association of Houston, Michael Lewis in Shell Auditorium at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business. Lewis's new book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, covers the fall of the American economy with humor, rich characters, and insight.
Who better than the author of the signature bestseller Liar’s Poker
to explain how the event we were told was impossible—the free fall of
the American economy—finally occurred; how the things that we wanted,
like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were
vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced
investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.
Michael Lewis’s splendid cast of characters includes villains, a few
heroes, and a lot of people who look very, very foolish: high
government officials, including the watchdogs; heads of major
investment banks (some overlap here with previous category); perhaps
even the face in your mirror. In this trenchant, raucous, irresistible
narrative, Lewis writes of the goats and of the few who saw what the
emperor was wearing, and gives them, most memorably, what they deserve.
He proves yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of
our times.
Michael Lewis, the author of Liar’s Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Panic, Home Game and The Big Short, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their three children.
This event is free and open to the public. Please note that Michael Lewis will sign only those books bought from Brazos Bookstore.
Location:
- Street:
- Rice University
- Additional:
- Shell Auditorium, Jones Graduate School of Business
- City:
- Houston ,
- Province:
- Texas
- Postal Code:
- 77005
- Country:
- United States
