The revenge of the SS (Social Sciences)

The Guardian runs an interesting interview with Gillian Tett, an anthropologist working for the Financial Times who had taken notice of the stench coming out of the City:

Firstly, you're trained to look at how societies or cultures operate holistically, so you look at how all the bits move together. And most people in the City don't do that. They are so specialised, so busy, that they just look at their own little silos. And one of the reasons we got into the mess we are in is because they were all so busy looking at their own little bit that they totally failed to understand how it interacted with the rest of society.