Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity is a non-fiction book edited by Michael Lewis about the most important and severe upheavals in past financial history. The book, a collection of articles and essays, was published on November 2, 2009, by W. W. Norton & Company. The text, Lewis writes, is an effort "to recreate the more recent financial panics, in an attempt to show how financial markets now operate." Source: Wikipedia (en)