The Strange, Cutthroat World of Paparazzi-Nomics

You can learn a lot about economic risk by camping out with shutterbugs

Allison Schrager
Marker
Published in
5 min readSep 10, 2019

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Illustration: Mica Warren

OnOn Wall Street, people obsess about risk, using high-speed computers and advanced math to identify different kinds of it and how to profit off it. But just a few miles away, I found an equally rich investigation of risk in action somewhere unlikely: in the work…

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Allison Schrager
Marker
Writer for

Economist, author of An Economist Walks into a Brothel, and pension geek.