Debates about financial reform have led to the recognition that a healthy financial system doesn’t depend solely on how it is structured—organizational culture matters as well. Based on extensive research in a Wall Street derivatives-trading room, Taking the Floor considers how the culture of financial organizations might change in order for them to remain healthy, even in times of crises. In particular, Daniel Beunza explores how the extensive use of financial models and trading technologies over the recent decades has exerted a far-ranging and troubling influence on Wall Street. How have models reshaped financial markets? How have models altered moral behavior in organizations?
Beunza takes readers behind the scenes in a bank unit that, within its firm, is widely perceived to be “a class act,” and he considers how this trading room unit might serve as a blueprint solution for the ills of Wall Street’s unsustainable culture. Beunza demonstrates that the integration of traders across desks reduces the danger of blind spots created by models. Warning against the risk of moral disengagement posed by the use of models, he also contends that such disengagement could be avoided by instituting moral norms and social relations.
Providing a unique perspective on a complex subject, Taking the Floor profiles what an effective, responsible trading room can and should look like.

贾瑞德·韦内特（瑞恩·高斯林 饰）是一个能把40亿美元单子做成37亿美元收入的德银代理人，迈克尔·布瑞（克里斯蒂安·贝尔 饰）是独眼基金管理人，马克·鲍姆（史蒂夫·卡瑞尔 饰）是华尔街世家出身，本·霍克特（布拉德·皮特 饰）是康沃尔资本退休银行家。华尔街这几位眼光独到的投资鬼才在2007年美国信贷风暴前就看穿了泡沫假象，通过做空CDO而大幅获益，成为少数在2008年全球金融危机中大量获利的枭雄。但他们真的能在危机中全身而退么……

In recent years, we've been rocked by a series of economic jolts, and all of them seemed to revolve around finance. And the most recent, the American mortgage meltdown, has sent shock waves around the world. Managed by the Markets , which won the 2010 George R. Terry Book Award, offers an illuminating account of how finance has replaced manufacturing at the center of the American economy over the past three decades, explaining how the new finance-centered system works, how we got here, and what challenges lay ahead.
Since the early 1980s, Gerald F. Davis shows, finance and financial considerations have increasingly taken center stage, dramatically reshaping American society. Corporations now have an overriding focus on creating shareholder value, while their personnel practices no longer provide secure employment, economic mobility, health insurance, or retirement benefits. Instead, employees must become shareholding free-agents, left to their own fate. Banking has shifted from the traditional role of taking in deposits and making loans to the widespread use of "securitization," turning loans (such as mortgages or corporate debt) into bonds owned by institutional investors. The financial services industry is both more concentrated among large banks and mutual funds, yet more spread out among under-regulated specialists such as mortgage finance companies and hedge funds. And states increasingly act as "vendors" in a global marketplace of law, emulating firms such as Nike, hiring contractors to do much of the work of government.
As a result, individuals and households find their welfare tied to the stock market and the mortgage market as never before. And the turbulence of recent years starkly underscores the dangers of depending too much on financial markets. Written in the spirit of C. Wright Mills' penetrating The Power Elite and White Collar , this brilliant study provides an invaluable map of the finance-driven American society.

2008年，全球金融海啸，多国陷入金融危机，损失高达20万亿美元，数以百万计人加入失业大军，甚至丧失家园……本片通过详尽的资料搜集，追访全球金融业界猛人、政客、财经记者，披露金融大鳄的崛兴之路，公开业内和学界贪污腐败的政策背后的惊人真相。

横跨近二百年延续子孙三代，《雷曼兄弟三部曲》讲述了改变世界的家族企业雷曼兄弟的传奇史诗。1844年九月的一个寒冷的早晨，一位来自巴伐利亚的年轻人站在纽约的码头边，梦想新世界的新生活。他的两个兄弟加入了他，一段美国奋斗史就此拉开序幕。163年后，他们建立的公司惨遭破产，并引发历史上最严重的金融危机……该剧原作由意大利人斯蒂法诺·马西尼创作，被翻译成11国语言并被搬上欧洲多个国家的舞台。
《雷曼兄弟三部曲》英语版由奥斯卡奖获奖导演萨姆·门德斯（电影《美国丽人》《007：大破天幕杀机》、戏剧《李尔王》《摆渡人》）执导，英国国家剧院联合艺术总监本·鲍尔翻译并操刀改编剧本，三位英国演技派代表——两度奥利弗奖得主西蒙·拉塞尔·比尔、托尼奖提名演员本·迈尔斯及亚当·戈德利玩转整个舞台，饰演全部角色。
该剧作为2018年英国国家剧院提早售罄的口碑新剧，2019年转西区再续火爆票房，喜提奥利弗奖最佳新剧、最佳话剧男主角等五项提名，给出五星好评的《卫报》盛赞：“无与伦比的夜晚，教科书般的演技”，同样打出五星的《泰晤士报》充分肯定了萨姆·门德斯导演的编排，交出了“戏剧最好的模样”。