Martin Mayer, author of The Bankers: The Next Generation, has been writing about business and financial subjects for forty years. Peter Passel of The New York Times, commented that "certainly the most original analysis in The Bankers: The Next Generation is of the revolution in banking that is being driven by technology". Mayer is currently a guest scholar at The Brookings Institution and writes about finance and technology for The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Barron's, Institutional Investor, and Bloomberg Personal, among others.