Check out this Felix Salmon's interview (video) with Gillian Tett, author of Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe (the reference to "Tribe" is a wink to Tett's background as an anthropologist). Also, she was recently on NPR.
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