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Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation into the everyday experiences and ideologies of Wall Street investment bankers, Ho describes how a financially dominant but highly unstable market system is understood, justified, and... more
Recommended by Jerry Neumann, and 1 others.

Jerry Neumann@TravisCorrigan @petergklein @mcgd @GordonBrianR Check out Karen Ho, now a prof at U Minnesota. She’s an academic anthropologist who wrote _Liquidated_ about Wall Street. Really interesting book https://t.co/5ud6aS2kh8 (Source)

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Cathay

First published in 1915, Cathay, Ezra Pound’s early monumental work, originally contained fourteen translations from the Chinese and a translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem “The Seafarer.” Over time, these poems have been widely read and loved as both translations and original poetry. In 1916, Cathay was reprinted in the book Lustra without “The Seafarer” and with four more Chinese poems. Cathay is greatly indebted to the notes of a Harvard-trained scholar Ernest Fenollosa. “In Fenollosa’s Chinese poetry materials,” Pound scholar Zhaoming Qian writes, “Pound discovered a new model that at once... more
Recommended by Jerry Neumann, and 1 others.

Jerry Neumann@kevinakwok They are in his book Cathay, but the ones I like best are https://t.co/fo0MHdzgwi and https://t.co/DckrRXNdLH (Source)

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From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books

For the first time in his long career, Robert Caro gives us a glimpse into his own life and work in these evocatively written, personal pieces. He describes what it was like to interview the mighty Robert Moses; what it felt like to begin discovering the extent of the political power Moses wielded; the combination of discouragement and...
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Recommended by Tim O'Reilly, Jerry Neumann, and 2 others.

Tim O'ReillyRobert Caro's book Working succeeds on so many levels: brilliant lessons on the art of researching and writing, a teaser for his great biographies, an endearing autobiography. A quick and delightful read. I can't recommend it highly enough. https://t.co/UJ9X04xx9W (Source)

Jerry Neumann@jdgalarneau Great book. He did this too though he had a dedicated space for it. My apartment isn’t big enough to leave these lying around is the problem. Of course, he probably had 100x the cards (Source)

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