The Networked Financier offers an explanation of the individual network behaviour of major financiers across diverse sectors and leading global financial centres. It argues that experienced financiers leverage their social capital to operate as 'networked financiers'.
David Meyer received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1970. He was in the Department of Geology & Geography at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst from 1970 to 1981. Then, he joined the Department of Sociology & Urban Studies Program at Brown University from 1981 to 2009. He retired as Emeritus Professor of Sociology & Urban Studies in 2009, and from then to the present, he is Senior Lecturer in Management at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis.