Saving The Sun

'A classic tale of East meets West, a subject Tett makes as intriguing in business as it is in war or romance.'International Herald Tribune

Gillian Tett was trained as a social anthropologist but became a journalist while doing fieldwork in Soviet Central Asia during the communist period in Russia. Since that time she has risen through the ranks of the Financial Times, holding positions on its economics desk before becoming the bureau chief in Japan. She now lives in London.

For more than a decade, Japan's dismal economy - which has bounced from deflationary collapse to fitful recovery and back to collapse - has been the biggest obstacle to economic growth. Why has the world's second largest economy been unable to save itself? Why has a country, whose financial might in the 1980s was the most feared force on the globe, become the sick man of the world economy? Saving the Sun answers these questions and more in the riveting and remarkable story of Long Term Credit Bank, one of the world's most respected financial institutions, and its attempts to transform itself into a Western-style bank and reconcile the cultural gulf that still exists between Japan and the international banking community.'Smart and engaging-it's a riveting tale with important insights into Japan's culture and its sclerotic system.' BusinessWeek'Saving the Sun is not simply about the fate of one Japanese bank. It is about the clash of two visions of finance-and how hard it is to reconcile them.' The Wall Street Journal Europe

Gillian Tett

How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life

'Absolutely brilliant.' Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking, Fast and Slow 
 
Meet the business anthropologists seeking to explain how we buy, sell, work and think. 
 
From supermarkets to factories, trading floors to tech firms, their methods are revealing the hidden codes that define our lives. 
 
The result is a wholly new way to see human behaviour: anthro-vision. 
 
One of the World's Top 50 Thinkers - Prospect

Gillian Tett

Anthro-Vision

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