Anthropologists in the stock exchange : a financial history of Victorian science /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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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.