Michael Lewis - The Friendship that Changed the World Steven Pressfield - The War of Art Niall Ferguson - The Square and the Tower Walter Scheidel - The Great Leveller, Violence and the History of Inequality
Michael Lewis' 2017 opus opens as an extension of his Moneyball. While the latter plots the discovery of how inefficient the market for baseball players was, and how valuable an edge in better valuation skills turned out to be, the new entrant turns the focus into answering how such competitive markets behave so poorly, and why it is that expert decision makers contributed to that folly for decades. It turns out that Friendship, as we will call it, insists on the sports theme. The first chapter is a compact retelling of Moneyball, this time from the perspective of an NBA team. Now, I know nothing about baseball but I know that Michael Jordan was quite good and I can name maybe 10 other ball players, so there's that.