Ho Liquidated

An Ethnography of Wall Street
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9137-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 389 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

An ethnography of Wall Street, investment bankers and the cultural logics of finance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ho, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Ho is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota.