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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 _c;112268 _d;18/05/2018
082			_a331.7613 HO
100			_aKaren Zouwen Ho
245			_aLiquidated _b: an ethnography of Wall Street _c/Karen Zouwen Ho
260			_aDurham, N.C. ; London _b: Duke University Press _c, 2009.
300			_axiii, 374 p. _c; 24 cm
505			_a Acknowledgments ixIntroduction: Anthropology Goes to Wall Street 11. Biographies of Hegemony: The Culture of Smartness and the Recruitment and Construction of Investment Bankers 392. Wall Street's Orientation: Exploitation, Empowerment, and the Politics of Hard Work 733. Wall Street Historiographies and the Shareholder Value Revolution 1224. The Neoclassical Roots and Origin Narratives of Shareholder Value 1695. Downsizers Downsized: Job Insecurity and Investment Banking Corporate Culture 2136. Liquid Lives, Compensation Schemes, and the Making of (Unsustainable) Financial Markets 2497. Leveraging Dominance and Crises through the Global 294Notes 325References 353Index 369
520			_aFinancial 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.
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_aEconomics _b Labor economics
700			_aKaren Zouwen Ho
942			_cBOOK
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