Displaying 1 of 1 2010 Format: Book Author: Lewis, Michael (Michael M.), author. Title: The big short : inside the doomsday machine / Michael Lewis. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2010] ©2010 Description: xviii, 266 pages ; 25 cm Summary: The author examines the causes of the U.S. stock market crash of 2008 and its relation to overpriced real estate, bad mortgages, shareholder demand for excessive profits, and the growth of toxic derivatives. Subjects: Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 21st century. United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2009. Notes: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, 2011 Contents: A secret origin story -- In the land of the blind -- "How can a guy who can't speak English lie?" -- How to harvest a migrant worker -- Accidental capitalists -- Spider-man at the Venetian -- The great treasure hunt -- The long quiet -- A death of interest -- Two men in a boat -- Epilogue : Everything is correlated. LCCN: 2010004804 ISBN: 9781846142574 1846142571 0393338827 9780393338829 9780393353150 039335315X 9780393072235 0393072231 Other Number: 317919864 System Availability: 3 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 3 Control Number: 260050 # Local items in: 2 # System items in: 2 Call Number: 330.973 Lewis Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
