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Liquidated : An Ethnography of Wall Street /
Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how fin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2009]
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| Colección: | A John Hope Franklin Center Book : 32
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Anthropology Goes to Wall Street
- 1. Biographies of Hegemony: The Culture of Smartness and the Recruitment and Construction of Investment Bankers
- 2. Wall Street's Orientation: Exploitation, Empowerment, and the Politics of Hard Work
- 3. Wall Street Historiographies and the Shareholder Value Revolution
- 4. The Neoclassical Roots and Origin Narratives of Shareholder Value
- 5. Downsizers Downsized: Job Insecurity and Investment Banking Corporate Culture
- 6. Liquid Lives, Compensation Schemes, and the Making of (Unsustainable) Financial Markets
- 7. Leveraging Dominance and Crises through the Global
- Notes
- References
- Index