Lauren Weber
IN CHEAP WE TRUST:
The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue
Little, Brown & Co., 2010
After working for five years at a non-profit charitable foundation in Seattle, giving away other people's money, Lauren Weber went on to become a business journalist. She has always been interested in how money affects us on a variety of levels -- as workers, consumers and investors, to be sure, but also as friends, lovers, spouses, children, parents and emotional beings with needs and desires. Money has an impact on all of those identities and relationships. In her work as a journalist -- as a staff reporter at Newsday and Reuters, and in freelance articles for the New York Times, American Banker and other publications -- she has tried to explore all of those aspects.
During the 2006-2007 academic year, she was a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University. Granted to ten business journalists every year, this fellowship affords the opportunity to study finance and economics at Columbia's Graduate School of Business, including coursework in topics such as Consumer Behavior and Modern Political Economy, all the while cultivating sources among professors and other faculty.
