Anthropologists in the stock exchange : a financial history of Victorian science /

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Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Flandreau, Marc (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Temas:
Anthropological Society of London > History > 19th century.
Stock Exchange (London, England) > History > 19th century.
Anthropological Society of London
Stock Exchange (London, England)
1800-1899
Anthropology > England > History > 19th century.
Learned institutions and societies > Corrupt practices > England > London > History > 19th century.
Stock exchanges > Corrupt practices > England > London > History > 19th century.
Anthropologie > Angleterre > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Sociétés savantes et instituts > Pratiques déloyales > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Bourse > Pratiques déloyales > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 19e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Anthropology
Stock exchanges > Corrupt practices
England
England > London
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the stock exchange modality
  • Writing about the margin
  • Rise of the cannibals
  • Anthropologists without qualities
  • The ogre of foreign loans
  • The learned society in the foreign debt food chain
  • Acts of speculation
  • Wanderlust
  • Salt-water anthropology
  • The violence of science
  • The man who ate the cannibals
  • Subject races
  • Conclusion: catharsis.

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