When I was growing up, I often wondered how it would feel to appear in a Hollywood movie. It never seemed very likely: I have spent my career first as an academic, studying the anthropology of marriage rituals in the remote mountains of Tajikistan, and then as an FT journalist, writing about equally specialist subjects such as Japanese banking and collateralised debt obligations (CDOs).
在我還沒(méi)長(zhǎng)大時(shí),經(jīng)常幻想出現(xiàn)在好萊塢電影里會(huì)是什么樣的感覺(jué)。不過(guò)這種幻想一直都不著邊際,我的職業(yè)生涯開(kāi)始于學(xué)術(shù)界,在塔吉克斯坦的偏僻山區(qū)對(duì)當(dāng)?shù)鼗樗走M(jìn)行人類(lèi)學(xué)研究,后來(lái)我成了《金融時(shí)報(bào)》的記者,報(bào)道一些同樣專(zhuān)業(yè)化的問(wèn)題,如日本銀行業(yè)和債務(wù)抵押債券(CDO)。