Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis, host of the podcast Against the Rules, has published many New York Times bestselling books, including The Fifth Risk, Flash Boys, and The Big Short. Movie versions of…
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Michael Lewis gets a glimpse of sports gambling’s future by talking with writers in Great Britain and Australia, where the industry is even more entrenched. But the US has its own peculiar history of failing to regulate dangerously addictive new products, and blaming the users instead. Especially when powerful industry advocates are able to pay scientists to sow doubt and delay the day of reckoning.
For further reading:
Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of our World by Dan Davies
Crikey’s coverage on sports gambling in Australia: Punted
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Story of the Sackler Family and Purdue Pharma
Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway.
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