| Descript |
xiii, 374 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
"A John Hope Franklin Center Book." |
| 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. |
| ISBN |
9780822345992 (pbk.) |
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9780822345800 (cloth) |
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