Why Wall Street’s Imploding and Main Street’s Improvingbr The New Yorker - Directors Guild Theatrebr JAMES SUROWIECKI: OUT OF CONTROL: PLAYING WITH OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEYbr br James Surowiecki has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2000 and writes the magazine’s Financial Page. He is the author of The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations.