Liquidated : an ethnography of Wall Street / Karen Ho.

Ho, Karen Zouwen, 1971-

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2009.

Securities industry--United States--Employees.
Stockbrokers--United States.
Investment banking--United States.
Downsizing of organizations--United States.

xiii, 374 p. ; 25 cm.

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.

"A John Hope Franklin Center Book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-368) and index.

9780822345800 (cloth : alk. paper)

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