Money at Work: On the Job with Priests, Poker Players and Hedge Fund Traders
"Our relationship to money is fascinating--and not just in the ways we expect. Delaney's argument is anecdotal but persuasive."-Zocalo Public Square,"Most of us, a few saints and one-per-centers aside, work for money, but not with it in the same direct manner of most of the subjects of Delaney’s intriguing study. We don’t manipulate cash to keep score like poker players (literally) or financial traders (figuratively) or work within a rich, mixed-message tradition of seeing money as a gift from God and ripe for human abuse—the root of all evil—like most clergy. Yet money work does have its effects, as Delaney, a sociologist at Temple University in Philadelphia, demonstrates: every workplace spawns its own money culture, its own cautionary tales of greed and fatal errors, its own conception of the universal economic lubricant."-Maclean's,"The book is a fascinating exploration of how, like mud on your shoe, you track money wherever you go. He finds, for instance, that bond traders don't just talk about bonds all day and then go home; with family they think of relationships in terms of profit and loss."-PRI'sMarketplace,"provides interesting insights...pleasant reading, as well"-CHOICE,“Readers will love this book for two reasons. First, it is written in a way that makes the reading highly enjoyable. Second, it brings a totally new approach to our understanding of money. The idea that the work we do affects the way we view money is simple and brilliant. Economic sociologists and other social scientists interested in money have much to learn fromMoney at Work.” -Richard Swedberg,author ofPrinciples of Economic Sociology