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Gillian Tett on Anthropology for the Modern Economist

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How an Anthropologist Becomes a Financial Columnist for the FT

Jillian Smith is named Provost of King's College, Cambridge University. She will continue to write financial columns for the FT until 2017. The two worlds of anthropology and finance could not be more different from each other. How do you go from studying Amazon tribes to studying Amazon warehouses as it were?

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