ISBN:
0822391376
,
9781283335218
,
9780822391371
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (xiii, 374 pages : ill. map))
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ho, Karen, 1971 - Liquidated
DDC:
331.7/6133264273
Keywords:
Investmentbank
;
Wertpapierhandel
;
Börsenmakler
;
Unternehmenskultur
;
Shareholder Value
;
Personalmanagement
;
Personalbeschaffung
;
Ethnologie
;
USA
;
Investment banking
;
Stockbrokers
;
Securities industry Employees
;
Downsizing of organizations
;
Electronic books
;
USA
;
Investment Banking
;
Wertpapierhandel
;
Finanzmarketing
;
Geschichte 1980-2009
;
USA
;
Shareholder-Value-Analyse
;
Personalabbau
;
Geschichte 1980-2009
Abstract:
An ethnography of Wall Street, investment bankers and the cultural logics of finance
Description / Table of Contents:
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 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
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Leveraging Dominance and Crises through the GlobalNotes; References; Index
Note:
"A John Hope Franklin Center Book
,
Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-368) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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