In" Out of the Pits," Caitlin Zaloom shows how traders, brokers, and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age. Drawing on her firsthand experiences as a clerk and a trader, as well as on her unusual access to key sites of global finance, she explains how changes at the world s leading financial exchanges have transformed economic cultures and the craft of speculation; how people and places are responding to the digital transition; how traders are remaking themselves to compete in the contemporary marketplace; and how brokers, business managers, and software designers are...
In" Out of the Pits," Caitlin Zaloom shows how traders, brokers, and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age. Drawing on her first...
Think in Public presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the distinctive approach of the online magazine Public Books to public scholarship. Today's leading thinkers offer a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change.
Think in Public presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the distinctive approach of the online magazine Public Books to public scholar...
Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand the fragility of American democracy and how to protect it from the buried contradictions that Trump's victory brought into view. It offers essays from leading scholars on topics including race, religion, gender, civil liberties, protest, inequality, immigration, and the media.
Antidemocracy in America is a collective effort to understand the fragility of American democracy and how to protect it from the buried contradictions...
Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed family life, the author describes the profound moral conflicts for parents take on enormous debts and gamble on an investment that might not pay off.
Taking readers into the homes of middle-class families to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has trans...
