Canonical contributor authority record for Michael Lewis. Identity and 2020 publication-time biography were verified from rendered PDF sheets 210–213.
Authority summary
Professor of sociology at Christopher Newport University as credited in 2020; author of The Coming of Southern Prohibition and researcher on drinking habits and alcohol policy.
Contribution to Prohibition's Greatest Myths
Coeditor of the volume and author of Chapter 5 on legal-consumption estimates, cirrhosis and drunkenness-arrest proxies, their limitations, and the directional conclusion that consumption declined.
Project use and boundary
Use for the measurement framework and bounded conclusion. Preserve proxy definitions and uncertainty; do not infer precise total consumption or overall policy success.