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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
by Karen Ho
June 27, 2019 - June 27, 2019 (read/capitalism-etc)

Ho, K. (2009). Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. Duke University Press Books.


Duke University Press Books, 2009. 392 pages. Hardcover. 9780822345800

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nobody should be denied access to credit
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who's made the most money for the firm
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business leaders are public servants
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Introduction: Anthropology Goes to Wall Street

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39. Biographies of Hegemony: The Culture of Smartness and the Recruitment and Construction of Investment Bankers

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73. Wall Street's Orientation: Exploitation, Empowerment, and the Politics of Hard Work

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3. Wall Street Historiographies and the Shareholder Value Revolution

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4. The Neoclassical Roots and Origin Narratives of Shareholder Value

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5. Downsizers Downsized : Job Insecurity and Investment Banking Corporate Culture

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6. Liquid Lives, Compensation Schemes, and the Making of (Unsustainable) Financial Markets

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