The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.
整本书以2005年以来历次前后嵌套的经济危机的积累与爆发为主线,作者通过到经济危机的爆发地探索,从民族性,社会性和经济活动之间的关系,深入浅出地把危机的主要原因,剖析和展现在读者面前。趣味性与严肃性并存,很有启发,而且一旦读上,就会爱不释手地一路读完。这本书不...
評分作者通过自己在冰岛、希腊、爱尔兰、德国和美国加州的亲身经历,挑选了一些大众喜闻乐见的趣闻轶事集结成册。 作者用戏谑的语气,带读者游览在各个国家的金融市场所发生的让人觉得不可思议的笑话,例如冰岛的年轻才俊借外债买外国的资产把整个国家变成一个对冲基金;希腊腐败...
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评分Michael Lewis寫得最好的一本。
评分as funny as his other works. Europeans must be bloody angry about his jokes though
评分as funny as his other works. Europeans must be bloody angry about his jokes though
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