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Financial collapses--whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market--are often explained as the inevitable results of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated , Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to... read more
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- Berle: Add a description of this character.
- J. P. Morgan
- S. Fraser
- Adam Smith
- Stan Clark
- Whitman
- Anthony Johnson
- Sennett
- Kate Miller
- Rappaport
- Julie Cooper
- Raina Bennett
- Donaldson
- Lazonick
- Wharton
- Christine Chang
- Zeitlin
- Sloan
- Schrader
- Komansky
- Roth
- Joseph Tsai
- Baker
- Henry Paulson
- Goldsmith
- Terrell
- John Carlton
- Henderson
- Scherer
- Douglass
- Lasher
- Faludi
- Levy
- Jason Kedd
- Ravenscraft
- Houser
- Baird
- Anderson
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- United States
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- New York City
- Asia
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- Japan
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anthropology Goes to Wall Street
1. Biographies of Hegemony: The Culture of Smartness and the Recruitment and Construction of Investment Bankers
2. Wall Street's Orientation: Exploitation, Empowerment, and the Politics of Hard Work
3. Wall Street Historiographies and the Shareholder Value Revolution
4. The Neoclassical Roots and Origin Narratives of Shareholder Value
5. Downsizers Downsized: Job Insecurity and Investment Banking Corporate Culture
6. Liquid Lives, Compensation Schemes, and the Making of (Unsustainable) Financial Markets
7. Leveraging Dominance and Crises through the Global
Notes
References
Index
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Authors & Contributors edit
- Karen Zouwen Ho (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4580-0
Page Count: 392
Publisher: Duke University Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-4580-0
Page Count: 392
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- Dewey: 331.76133264273
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- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology › Cultural
- Books › Business & Investing › Economics › Economic Conditions
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
- Books › Business & Investing › International › Economic Conditions
- Books › Business & Investing › Job Hunting & Careers › Guides
- Books › Business & Investing › Job Hunting & Careers › Job Markets & Advice
- Books › Professional & Technical › Accounting & Finance › Finance
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