Mari­na Gern­er is an award- win­ning finan­cial jour­nal­ist and Adjunct Pro­fes­sor of Cul­ture and Com­merce at NYU Stern School of Busi­ness. Her work has been pub­lished in The Economist’s 1843, The Wall Street Jour­nal, The Guardian, Finan­cial Times, Wired, The Times Lit­er­ary Sup­ple­ment, and Jew­ish Chron­i­cle. She has received a book grant from the pres­ti­gious Alfred P. Sloan Foun­da­tion for this book.