Liquidated
An Ethnography of Wall Street
1st Edition
Published on 13. July 2009
392 pages
978-0-8223-9137-1 (ISBN)
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An ethnography of Wall Street, investment bankers and the cultural logics of finance.
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Karen Ho is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Anthropology Goes to Wall Street 1
1. Biographies of Hegemony: The Culture of Smartness and the Recruitment and Construction of Investment Bankers 39
2. Wall Street's Orientation: Exploitation, Empowerment, and the Politics of Hard Work 73
3. Wall Street Historiographies and the Shareholder Value Revolution 122
4. The Neoclassical Roots and Origin Narratives of Shareholder Value 169
5. Downsizers Downsized: Job Insecurity and Investment Banking Corporate Culture 213
6. Liquid Lives, Compensation Schemes, and the Making of (Unsustainable) Financial Markets 249
7. Leveraging Dominance and Crises through the Global 294
Notes 325
References 353
Index 369
Introduction: Anthropology Goes to Wall Street 1
1. Biographies of Hegemony: The Culture of Smartness and the Recruitment and Construction of Investment Bankers 39
2. Wall Street's Orientation: Exploitation, Empowerment, and the Politics of Hard Work 73
3. Wall Street Historiographies and the Shareholder Value Revolution 122
4. The Neoclassical Roots and Origin Narratives of Shareholder Value 169
5. Downsizers Downsized: Job Insecurity and Investment Banking Corporate Culture 213
6. Liquid Lives, Compensation Schemes, and the Making of (Unsustainable) Financial Markets 249
7. Leveraging Dominance and Crises through the Global 294
Notes 325
References 353
Index 369
