Laura Barton meets Gillian Tett | On the money
Posted: March 2nd, 2009 | Author: John | Tags: analysis, anecdotal evidence, user research | No Comments »Gillian Tett, assistant editor at the Financial Times, on the causes of the credit crisis and how her training in anthropology helped her predict our current dilemma more than two years ago.
I happen to think anthropology is a brilliant background for looking at finance,’ she reasons. ‘Firstly, you’re trained to look at how societies or cultures operate holistically, so you look at how all the bits move together. And most people in the City don’t do that. They are so specialised, so busy, that they just look at their own little silos. And one of the reasons we got into the mess we are in is because they were all so busy looking at their own little bit that they totally failed to understand how it interacted with the rest of society.
Full Article: The Guardian
