Hedged Out

"Megan Tobias Neely uses rigorous social science and clear prose to pull back the curtain on the hedge fund industry and grapple with the ugliness of today's inequality, all the while offering us hope by suggesting pathways to transformation."--Shamus R. Khan, Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Princeton University, and author of Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul's School "Provides an in-depth view of the social world of hedge funds, with cutting edge interview and ethnographic data. Ambitious in scope and a page turner."--Kimberly Kay Hoang, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and author of Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work "This book will add to our understanding of elites and high-status groups in society."--Adia Harvey Wingfield, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, and author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New Economy "Megan Tobias Neely unleashes the power of her ethnographic skills against the traders and managers of the hedge fund industry, a tribe that manages to be curiously unenriched by its money."--James K. Galbraith, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin