Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street

by Karen Ho

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822345994
• ISBN13: 9780822345992
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"