A self-confessed ‘complete outsider in the City’, Joris Luyendijk reveals the best guides he’s found to this complex, sometimes terrifying world
I wanted to write a book about bankers because finance seems to have replaced politics, with democracy beginning to feel like a system that allows voters to decide which politician gets to implement what “the markets” dictate.
Who are these people? That is what the Guardian wanted to know too, so they sent this complete outsider into the City; a Dutchman with no background in finance who could start at the beginning. My task: to find out what do bankers do all day – and how they live with themselves?
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