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.

邁剋爾?劉易斯，美國超級暢銷書作傢，畢業於美國普林斯頓大學和英國倫敦經濟學院，曾任所羅門兄弟公司的債券交易員，後為《紐約時報》撰稿，並擔任英國《觀察傢周刊》的美國版編輯。他的成名作《說謊者的撲剋牌》被公認是描寫20世紀80年代華爾街文化的經典名作