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When The Hunger Games series began in 2008, many commentators lumped it in with other young adult genre fiction. But The Hunger Games was always more political. It’s since become the defining story for a generation that’s grown up with economic crisis and never ending war. An uber-rich ruling class gorge themselves in their gleaming high-tech Capitol, while working people are left behind to survive in exploited districts. Revolution is a forgotten hope kept at bay by brutal policing, aching poverty, and rigid class segregation. Suzanne Collins' dark vision has only become more relevant as The Hunger Games generation are thrown into an arena of increasingly brutal competition from which it seems like there is no escape, amid the climate crisis, global pandemics, rampant inequality, authoritarianism, media misinformation, and violence and cruelty as TV spectacle. It's no wonder the story continues to resonate. Stay Alive uses the story to shed light on our own age of extreme inequalities and climate collapse, in which elites use state power, compliant media, and violent spectacle to pacify their populations. The elite endgame is leading us towards our own version of Panem, an authoritarian state order we’ll call Capitolism. The world is catching fire. Elites have no intention of burning with us. And yet there is hope, which Michael Harris finds for his readers in revolution and radical solidarity, in the anti-authoritarian, empathetic, cooperative politics of a generation that has no choice but to rebel.
Michael Harris
Michael Harris started trading stocks, commodities, and currency futures 30 years ago. Michael is the author of the Price Action Lab Blog website. Michael also develops and sells trading strategies and software designed to empower traders and market professionals.
Michael was a pioneer in developing software for identifying price action anomalies 25 years ago. In the past 10 years, he has worked on the development of DLPAL LS, which is a software program that can identify short-term anomalies in market data for use with rule-based and machine-learning models. Michael has also developed several new technical indicators for the analysis of price action and identification of market regimes, such as the Momersion indicator.
Michael has worked in the past for several financial firms, where he developed a program for optimizing bond portfolios and strategies for trading commodities and equities. He has also worked as a long-short equity and ETF trader for a hedge fund.
In 1999, Michael published his first book, "Short-Term Trading with Price Patterns." He published his books "Stock Trading Techniques with Price Patterns" in 2000 and "Profitability and Systematic Trading" in 2008, respectively. In 2015, he published his most recent book, "Fooled by Technical Analysis: The Perils of Charting, Backtesting, and Data-Mining Bias." He has also published many articles as an invited author.
Michael holds two master's degrees, one in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in control systems and optimization and another in operations research with an emphasis in forecasting and financial engineering.
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