Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. Her latest book is Expulsions: Complexity and Brutality in the Global Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (2014); now translated into 15 languages.

Finance cities

Vampire Finance Sucks the Lifeblood Out of the Economy

We citizens have a lot of work to do. We delegated too much, we have assumed experts can do it and have ended up in an exploitative relationship. We need to develop our own expertise.

February 6, 2019