{"id":45,"date":"2004-06-25T02:25:50","date_gmt":"2004-06-25T02:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php\/2004\/06\/25\/moneyball\/"},"modified":"2004-06-25T02:25:50","modified_gmt":"2004-06-25T02:25:50","slug":"moneyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Moneyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just discovered Michael Lewis, author of, among many other titles, <em>Moneyball<\/em> and <em>Liar&#8217;s Poker<\/em>. (Thanks again to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleeblog.com\">Bleeding Edge.<\/a>)<br \/>\nLewis&#8217; work challenges a lot of currently accepted market thinking &#8211; particularly the very recent idea that corporations exist alone to give value to shareholders.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/personalities\/birnbaum_v_michael_lewis.php\">an interview with Lewis<\/a> discussing <em>Moneyball<\/em>.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s part of the introduction by interviewer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/robert_birnbaum\/\">Robert Birnbaum<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Moneyball is a well-researched, well-written look at the methodology and the people (mainly, general manager Billy Beane) who help make a small-budget baseball team (the Oakland Athletics) extremely competitive in the big money world of Major League baseball. It is greatly to Lewis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just discovered Michael Lewis, author of, among many other titles, Moneyball and Liar&#8217;s Poker. (Thanks again to Bleeding Edge.) Lewis&#8217; work challenges a lot of currently accepted market thinking &#8211; particularly the very recent idea that corporations exist alone to give value to shareholders. Here&#8217;s an interview with Lewis discussing Moneyball. Here&#8217;s part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chriscurnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}