Defending Shylock — Kindle version
My essay, Defending Shylock: Productive Work in Financial Markets, is now available in Kindle format.
In this essay, I discuss the great value that financial markets add to an economy and the nature of the intellectual work that underlays them. In addition, I argue against the critics of financial markets who argue that those who work in them are zero-sum parasites upon the physical laborers who make tangible goods and that they make merely “paper profits.”
Along the way, I discuss controversial figures such as Martha Stewart, Michael Milken, Aristotle Onassis, Ivan Boesky, Jesus, Augustus, and Shakespeare’s character Shylock from The Merchant of Venice.
Defending Shylock is also available in hard copy pamphlet form at Amazon and as a download at the Social Science Research Network.
