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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2009.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.