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An Ethnography of Wall Street
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Anthropology Goes to Wall Street 1
1. Biographies of Hegemony: The Culture of Smartness and the Recruitment
and Construction of Investment Bankers 39
2. Wall Street's Orientation: Exploitation, Empowerment, and the Politics
of Hard Work 73
3. Wall Street Historiographies and the Shareholder Value Revolution 122
4. The Neoclassical Roots and Origin Narratives of Shareholder Value 169
5. Downsizers Downsized: Job Insecurity and Investment Banking Corporate
Culture 213
6. Liquid Lives, Compensation Schemes, and the Making of (Unsustainable)
Financial Markets 249
7. Leveraging Dominance and Crises through the Global 294
Notes 325
References 353
Index 369
