作者：[美]KarenZouwenHo
出版社：DukeUniversityPress
副标题：AnEthnographyofWallStreet
出版年：2009-7-13
页数：392
定价：GBP20.99
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9780822345992
内容简介
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From Publishers Weekly
The timely question, What caused the current global financial crisis? provokes answers usually aimed at the level of institutions and the more abstract market logic. Ho's refreshing ethnography of the daily lives of Wall Street investment bankers takes another tack and outlines a web of practices, beliefs and structures that may be vital to understanding what keeps the market system in place despite built-in instabilities. Ho, a former business analyst and now an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, unpacks constant downsizing, high risk/high reward job liquidity, shortsighted compensation structures, prestige and the ruse of shareholder value. Her keen eye for the significance of space illuminates workplace narratives, e.g., segregating staff by floor, function and prestige; constant and lavish recruiting events at Princeton and Harvard; and anticlimactically tawdry office space for most workers. The author exposes how elite undergraduates are immersed in a culture promoting finance as the only legitimate job, how educational pedigrees reinforce the financial world's self-image—while the actual jobs remain rigidly hierarchical (stratifying women, people of color and non–Ivy League graduates), highly unstable and isolating, encouraging a culture in which making money is the only value. (Aug.)
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Review
"We're pretty familiar with the economic rationale for the regime of cost-cutting and downsizing throughout corporate America in recent decades. But Karen Ho's research greatly enriches our understanding of how Wall Street's own peculiar culture of transient relationships and relentless competition has contributed to the shareholder revolution. And, along the way, her interviews and fieldwork offer a very revealing picture of the mind of Wall Street. A fascinating and important book." Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer " Karen Ho has picked an excellent time to publish her fascinating new study…patient ethnographic analysis has produced a fascinating portrait that will be refreshingly novel to most bankers…Ho peppers her account with revealing eyewitness stories…Most fascinating of all is her account of how Wall Street becomes deluded by its own rhetoric about "market efficiency"…I, for one, would vote that Ho's account becomes mandatory reading on any MBA (or investment banking course); if nothing else, it might be more entertaining than the other texts that bankers swallow so uncritically." Gillian Tett, Financial Times, 2nd October 2009
作者简介
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Karen Ho is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.
目录
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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
7. Leveraging Dominance and Crises through the Global
Notes
References
Index
评论 ······
田野调查细致有序，历史回溯框架明了论证有力，将1970/80neoliberalism崛起后corporate America成为了stakeholder value的天下的背后的暗流涌动（smart但是可替换的高压工作文化，我不追逐市场因为我就是市场的短视循环，我变得越global越会引起经济危机但也越不用担心因为政府会来救我，全球和我一起脉动等）绘声绘色地描述出来，公司最为social ent…
城市人类学的一个特征就是人类学家能做的东西很大程度上仰赖于个人背景和社会网络，这样一个田野对作者来说不见得有多难，但对outsider来说就是不可能完成的任务
现在看来有点过时了
从文中就感觉作者是非常适合学术界不适合金融界的人
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