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Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anthropology Goes to Wall Street
Wall Street Habitus: The Cultural Production of Liquidation
Wall Street Institutional Culture: Access, Initiation, and Method
Countering Abstraction, Constructing Financial Markets, and Particularizing Global Capitalism
1: Biographies of Hegemony: The Culture of Smartness and the Recruitment and Construction of Investment Bankers
Recruitment
The Cross-Pollination of Elitism
Justifying Dominance in Global Financial Markets: The Culture of Smartness Writ Large
2: Wall Street’s Orientation: Exploitation, Empowerment, and the Politics of Hard Work
Orientation
Tiered Elevators: Investment Banks at a Glance
The White-Collar Sweatshop
Hard Work
Forging Superior Workers
Marked and Unmarked Investment Bankers and the Politics of Hard Work
3: Wall Street Historiographies and the Shareholder Value Revolution
Contextualizing Shareholder Value
The Takeover Movement of the 1980s and Wall Street’s Collective Memory
Historicizing the Takeover Movement
Takeover Players, Mechanisms, and Worldviews
The “Reclaiming” of Shareholder Value
Implosions of Shareholder Value
“We Can Wing It Like That”: The Problem of Efficiency in Shareholder Value Narratives
Shareholder Value Temporalities
4: The Neoclassical Roots and Origin Narratives of Shareholder Value
Neoclassical Assumptions and the Problem of the Modern Corporation
Shareholding, the Stock Market, and the Rise of the Modern Corporation
Liquidity, Not Control
The Modern Corporation and the Reimagining of Neoclassical Assumptions
The Managerial Challenge
Shareholding and Wall Street Worldviews in the Postwar Era
The Persistence of Neoclassical Assumptions
The Death of the Schizophrenic Corporation
5: Downsizers Downsized: Job Insecurity and Investment Banking Corporate Culture
The Downsized Anthropologist
Investment Banking Approaches to Work
Narratives of Job Insecurity on Wall Street
Insecurity, Downsizing, and Market Externalizations
The Brave New Workplace
6: Liquid Lives, Compensation Schemes, and the Making of (Unsustainable) Financial Markets
A Moment’s Notice
The Culture of High Risk/High Reward
The Rationalization of Job Insecurity through Compensation
The “Strategy of No Strategy”
The Construction of Crisis: The Social Consequences of Investment Banking Culture
7: Leveraging Dominance and Crises through the Global
Global Seduction
Global Fissures: What’s in a Name?
Global Markets—or Global Marketing?
Global Contradictions: Simultaneously Here and Everywhere?
Constituting Global Presence and Flexibility
Global Ambitions and Instabilities
Subprime Coda
Notes
References
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