Liquidated – An Ethnography of Wall Street: A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Autor Karen Hoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iul 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780822345992
ISBN-10: 0822345994
Pagini: 392
Ilustrații: 3 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 167 x 235 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0822345994
Pagini: 392
Ilustrații: 3 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 167 x 235 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Locul publicării:United States
Cuprins
Contents; 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 Streets 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 GlobalNotes; References; Index
Recenzii
"Liquidated is an interesting description of many of the practices and orientations that exist in large investment banks, one that confirms what the reader may suspect: that these institutions are forcing-grounds for the sort of hubris and invulnerability that goes with the phrase Masters of the Universe, the incomprehensible money that sales staff receive, and the idea that they are doing Gods work. It also, however, indicates the reverse of the strength of the social studies of finance. Liquidated may help explain why those in investment banks think and operate in the ways that they do." - James C. Carrier, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
"We're pretty familiar with the economic rationale for the regime of cost-cutting and downsizing throughout corporate America in recent decades. But Karen Ho's research greatly enriches our understanding of how Wall Street's own peculiar culture of transient relationships and relentless competition has contributed to the shareholder revolution. And, along the way, her interviews and fieldwork offer a very revealing picture of the mind of Wall Street. A fascinating and important book." - Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer
Karen Ho has picked an excellent time to publish her fascinating new study...patient ethnographic analysis has produced a fascinating portrait that will be refreshingly novel to most bankers...Ho peppers her account with revealing eyewitness stories...Most fascinating of all is her account of how Wall Street becomes deluded by its own rhetoric about market efficiency...I, for one, would vote that Hos account becomes mandatory reading on any MBA (or investment banking course); if nothing else, it might be more entertaining than the other texts that bankers swallow so uncritically. - Gillian Tett, Financial Times, 2nd October 2009
"Ho's study shows the intense competitiveness that is instilled in these primarily Ivy League recruits even before they are finished with their Bachelor's degrees. And she examines the myth that stockowners and companies are best served by maximizing shareholder profits. If anything, this book gives faces to the people who work in that abstract entity called Wall Street that seems to affect our world so much of late. I highly recommend it, especially if you have no idea how the world of high finance operates." James Franco, The Huffington Post, June 4th 2012
"Liquidated is an interesting description of many of the practices and orientations that exist in large investment banks, one that confirms what the reader may suspect: that these institutions are forcing-grounds for the sort of hubris and invulnerability that goes with the phrase Masters of the Universe', the incomprehensible money that sales staff receive, and the idea that they are 'doing God's work'. It also, however, indicates the reverse of the strength of the social studies of finance. Liquidated may help explain why those in investment banks think and operate in the ways that they do." - James C. Carrier, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "We're pretty familiar with the economic rationale for the regime of cost-cutting and downsizing throughout corporate America in recent decades. But Karen Ho's research greatly enriches our understanding of how Wall Street's own peculiar culture of transient relationships and relentless competition has contributed to the shareholder revolution. And, along the way, her interviews and fieldwork offer a very revealing picture of the mind of Wall Street. A fascinating and important book." - Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer " Karen Ho has picked an excellent time to publish her fascinating new study...patient ethnographic analysis has produced a fascinating portrait that will be refreshingly novel to most bankers...Ho peppers her account with revealing eyewitness stories...Most fascinating of all is her account of how Wall Street becomes deluded by its own rhetoric about "market efficiency"...I, for one, would vote that Ho's account becomes mandatory reading on any MBA (or investment banking course); if nothing else, it might be more entertaining than the other texts that bankers swallow so uncritically." - Gillian Tett, Financial Times, 2nd October 2009 "Ho's study shows the intense competitiveness that is instilled in these primarily Ivy League recruits even before they are finished with their Bachelor's degrees. And she examines the myth that stockowners and companies are best served by maximizing shareholder profits. If anything, this book gives faces to the people who work in that abstract entity called Wall Street that seems to affect our world so much of late. I highly recommend it, especially if you have no idea how the world of high finance operates." James Franco, The Huffington Post, June 4th 2012
"We're pretty familiar with the economic rationale for the regime of cost-cutting and downsizing throughout corporate America in recent decades. But Karen Ho's research greatly enriches our understanding of how Wall Street's own peculiar culture of transient relationships and relentless competition has contributed to the shareholder revolution. And, along the way, her interviews and fieldwork offer a very revealing picture of the mind of Wall Street. A fascinating and important book." - Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer
Karen Ho has picked an excellent time to publish her fascinating new study...patient ethnographic analysis has produced a fascinating portrait that will be refreshingly novel to most bankers...Ho peppers her account with revealing eyewitness stories...Most fascinating of all is her account of how Wall Street becomes deluded by its own rhetoric about market efficiency...I, for one, would vote that Hos account becomes mandatory reading on any MBA (or investment banking course); if nothing else, it might be more entertaining than the other texts that bankers swallow so uncritically. - Gillian Tett, Financial Times, 2nd October 2009
"Ho's study shows the intense competitiveness that is instilled in these primarily Ivy League recruits even before they are finished with their Bachelor's degrees. And she examines the myth that stockowners and companies are best served by maximizing shareholder profits. If anything, this book gives faces to the people who work in that abstract entity called Wall Street that seems to affect our world so much of late. I highly recommend it, especially if you have no idea how the world of high finance operates." James Franco, The Huffington Post, June 4th 2012
"Liquidated is an interesting description of many of the practices and orientations that exist in large investment banks, one that confirms what the reader may suspect: that these institutions are forcing-grounds for the sort of hubris and invulnerability that goes with the phrase Masters of the Universe', the incomprehensible money that sales staff receive, and the idea that they are 'doing God's work'. It also, however, indicates the reverse of the strength of the social studies of finance. Liquidated may help explain why those in investment banks think and operate in the ways that they do." - James C. Carrier, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute "We're pretty familiar with the economic rationale for the regime of cost-cutting and downsizing throughout corporate America in recent decades. But Karen Ho's research greatly enriches our understanding of how Wall Street's own peculiar culture of transient relationships and relentless competition has contributed to the shareholder revolution. And, along the way, her interviews and fieldwork offer a very revealing picture of the mind of Wall Street. A fascinating and important book." - Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer " Karen Ho has picked an excellent time to publish her fascinating new study...patient ethnographic analysis has produced a fascinating portrait that will be refreshingly novel to most bankers...Ho peppers her account with revealing eyewitness stories...Most fascinating of all is her account of how Wall Street becomes deluded by its own rhetoric about "market efficiency"...I, for one, would vote that Ho's account becomes mandatory reading on any MBA (or investment banking course); if nothing else, it might be more entertaining than the other texts that bankers swallow so uncritically." - Gillian Tett, Financial Times, 2nd October 2009 "Ho's study shows the intense competitiveness that is instilled in these primarily Ivy League recruits even before they are finished with their Bachelor's degrees. And she examines the myth that stockowners and companies are best served by maximizing shareholder profits. If anything, this book gives faces to the people who work in that abstract entity called Wall Street that seems to affect our world so much of late. I highly recommend it, especially if you have no idea how the world of high finance operates." James Franco, The Huffington Post, June 4th 2012
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"What could be more timely than this fascinating and highly readable investigation of the culture of Wall Street? With "Liquidated," Karen Ho takes us into the workaday world of investment banking before the crisis, showing us the roots of the risk-taking that drew lavish compensation packages and brought the world financial system to the brink of collapse. A significant contribution both to the anthropological and wider social scientific literature on financial markets and globalization, as well as to the urgent public debate over the power of financial institutions in contemporary American society."--Bill Maurer, author of "Pious Property: Islamic Mortgages in the United States"
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Descriere
An ethnography of Wall Street, investment bankers and the cultural logics of finance