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1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages) |
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text file |
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PDF |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Note |
"A John Hope Franklin Center Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-368) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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 financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation into the everyday experiences and ideologies of Wall Street investment bankers, Ho describes how a financially dominant but highly unstable market system is understood, justified, and produced through the restructuring of corporations and the larger economy. Ho, who worked at an investment bank herself, argues that bankers' approaches to financial markets and corporate America are inseparable from the structures and strategies of their workplaces. Her ethnographic analysis of those workplaces is filled with the voices of stressed first-year associates, overworked and alienated analysts, undergraduates eager to be hired, and seasoned managing directors. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost All EBSCO eBooks |
| Subject |
Securities industry -- United States -- Employees.
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Stockbrokers -- United States.
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Investment banking -- United States.
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Downsizing of organizations -- United States.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Downsizing of organizations. |
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Investment banking. |
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Securities industry -- Employees. |
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Stockbrokers. |
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United States. |
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Finanzmarketing |
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Shareholder-Value-Analyse |
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Personalabbau |
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Investment Banking |
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Wertpapierhandel |
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USA |
| Other Form: |
Print version: (DLC) 2009007594 (OCoLC)310715693 |
| ISBN |
9780822391371 (electronic bk.) |
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0822391376 (electronic bk.) |
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1283335212 |
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9781283335218 |
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9780822345800 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0822345803 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780822345992 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0822345994 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
99954362980 |
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