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Book SynopsisShows how traders, brokers, and global financial markets have adapted to the digital age. The author explains how changes at the world's leading financial exchanges have transformed economic cultures and the craft of speculation, and how people and places are responding to the digital transition.
Trade Review"Zaloom's superb book is a double-site ethnography [that shows how] the appearance of chaos hid a complex social order, which Zaloom delineates beautifully." - London Review of Books "The book is half fascinating cultural portrait and half in-depth academic text.... What emerges from the mix is a nuanced, bottom-up picture of Chicago's economic importance in the world market, and how our city's working-class swagger has shaped derivatives trading from the inception of the market." - Time Out Chicago"
