"A John Hope Franklin Center Book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-368) and index.

Anthropology goes to Wall Street -- Biographies of hegemony : the culture of smartness and the recruitment and construction of investment bankers -- Wall Street's orientation : exploitation, empowerment, and the politics of hard work -- Wall Street historiographies and the shareholder value revolution -- The neoclassical roots and origin narratives of shareholder value -- Downsizers downsized : job insecurity and investment banking corporate culture -- Liquid lives, compensation schemes, and the making of (unsustainable) financial markets -- Leveraging dominance and crises through the global.