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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ho, Karen Zouwen, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Anthropology goes to Wall Street
  • Biographies of hegemony : the culture of smartness and the recruitment and construction of investment bankers
  • Wall Street's orientation : exploitation, empowerment, and the politics of hard work
  • Wall Street historiographies and the shareholder value revolution
  • The neoclassical roots and origin narratives of shareholder value
  • Downsizers downsized : job insecurity and investment banking corporate culture
  • Liquid lives, compensation schemes, and the making of (unsustainable) financial markets
  • Leveraging dominance and crises through the global.