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Title
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (A John Hope Frankli...
Book Title
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (A John Hope Frankli...
ISBN
0822345994
EAN
9780822345992
Binding
Paperback
Genre
Sociology & anthropology
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25.40
Length
231.14
Width
154.94
Release Title
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street (A John Hope Frankli...
Artist
Ho, Karen
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Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Liquidated: an Ethnography of Wall Street
Item Height
235mm
Author
Karen Ho
Publisher
Duke University Press
Item Width
156mm
Subject
Sociology, Finance, Anthropology
Item Weight
567g
Number of Pages
392 Pages

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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. Recruited from elite universities as the best and the brightest, investment bankers are socialized into a world of high risk and high reward. They are paid handsomely, with the understanding that they may be let go at any time. Their workplace culture and networks of privilege create the perception that job insecurity builds character, and employee liquidity results in smart, efficient business. Based on this culture of liquidity and compensation practices tied to profligate deal-making, Wall Street investment bankers reshape corporate America in their own image. Their mission is the creation of shareholder value, but Ho demonstrates that their practices and assumptions often produce crises instead. By connecting the values and actions of investment bankers to the construction of markets and the restructuring of U.S. corporations, Liquidated reveals the particular culture of Wall Street often obscured by triumphalist readings of capitalist globalization.

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Duke University Press
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9780822345992
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Author
Karen Ho
Publication Name
Liquidated: an Ethnography of Wall Street
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Sociology, Finance, Anthropology
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
392 Pages

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Item Height
235mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
567g

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Karen Ho
Series Title
A John Hope Franklin Center Book
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United States

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