Joris luyendijk delves into the financial world by interviewing different people who work in the financial sector he tries to find out what caused the banking crisis of 2008 and how future crises can be avoided. One journalists search for truth in the middle east author. After many postings and interviews with more than 200 staff members from large investment and commercial banks, hedge funds, financial supervisors, and others, swimming with sharks was born. My journey into the world of the bankersjoris luyendijks behind the scenes take on life in the city is worth reading for its. Swimming with sharks, by joris luyendijk financial times. Joris luyendijk speakers bureau and booking agent info. Join facebook to connect with joris luyendijk and others you may know. Sep 11, 2015 swimming with sharks, by joris luyendijk. Joris luyendijk set out to do when the guardian invited him in 2011 to blog about understanding the financial sector. Joris luyendijk spent several years interviewing bankers for the guardian. Shortly after the book came out, a dutch newspaper asked me to become their middle east correspondent. He is a writer, journalist and author of hello everybody one journalists search for truth in the middle east. The essence of his book is that our major banks have become too big to allow that confidence to return.
The interviews he collected over a two year period appeared in a banking blog, anonymized, in the british quality newspaper. Joris luyendijk is a dutch anthropologist and journalist who is best known for the banking blog, a column in the guardian that logs his research into the world of finance in london. In the wake of the financial crisis, thenguardian editor alan rusbridger asked luyendijk to create something which would serve as a laymans guide to the often opaque world of banking. Heres how the blog s open journalism my interviews, your opinions, your information has massively expanded the scope of our investigation into the world of. May 10, 2017 joris luyendijk is a dutch anthropologist and journalist who is best known for the banking blog, a column in the guardian that logs his research into the world of finance in london. Shortly after the book came out, a nef newspaper asked me to become their middle east correspondent. The joris luyendijk banking blog commentisfree the guardian. It creates the impression that economists are not in the business of constructing. Joris luyendijk was born on 30 december 1971 in amsterdam in the netherlands. His first book een goede man slaat soms zijn vrouw 1998, a good man sometimes beats his wife is about the egyptian society from a western. Thats in part what the dutch journalist joris luyendijk sets out to uncover in his new book, among the bankers. Plus receive a free ebook and 7 articles of your choosing on the prospect website. The joris luyendijk banking blog page 5 of 8 the guardian. For two year i was active on the jorisluyendijk banking blog for the guardian in london, an experiment in longtail.
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The book sold over 250,000 copies in the netherlands alone, and has been published in sixteen countries. Swimming with sharks, book by joris luyendijk paperback. When joris luyendijk was interviewing bankers, many clearly felt his. I wanted to know how bankers can live with themselves.
May 04, 2015 as a columnist for the guardian, joris luyendijk embarked on a project for which he interviewed many citybased bankers in order to grasp the world of banking. For two year i was active on the jorisluyendijk banking blog for the guardian in london, an experiment in longtail journalism. Known in the netherlands as a journalist and writer on the middle east, he wrote a book entitled het zijn net mensen hello everybody in which he separated fiction from reality in journalism. A journey into the heart of finance, which was published overseas last year under. Swimming with joris luyendijk popanth hot buttered humanity.
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