Daniel Fridman

Daniel Fridman is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Freedom from Work: Embracing Financial Self-Help in the United States and Argentina (2016).


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Betting on Other People’s Lives

Jockeys pressing their horses forward along a muddy track grace the cover of Ivan Ascher’s Portfolio Society. The horse race, Ascher claims, is the best image …