何柔宛(Karen Ho),普林斯顿大学人类学博士,明尼苏达大学人类学系教授,研究方向为华尔街制度文化、美国企业裁员现象和新自由主义。
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
我没有受过社会学的专业训练,不知道从社会学专业的角度如何评价这本书。作为一个普通读者,只能说这本书挺让人失望的。 这本书花了大量篇幅反复强调投行工作时间长、薪酬水平高、流动性大这些非常显而易见的事实。问题是这些简单的事实完全可以通过统计数字做出全局性的描述,...
评分这是一个一堆之前大约除了去银行存钱之外从没了解过金融业的人,也能靠着几段舶来的对于CDS或是MBS的评论,指着金融衍生品摇头说,“坏极坏极”的时代。 大约从2008年9月以来(甚至更早),金融业便变得名声狼籍,几乎被扣上祸国殃民的帽子。在美国,“贪婪短视”的银行...
评分书名中的清算指的是经常跟裁员倒闭关联在一起的重组清算,不是结算Settlement。实际上这个书名跟后面副标题中的华尔街关联起来,容易让人误以为是结算。 作者是人类学博士,本书是作者在1998-1999年在华尔街工作期间和之后访问后的人类学田野报告,再加上作者对“股东价值”的...
评分第一章:其实就是说通过“名校”的隐秘光环,塑造一种大家都是聪明人的标准,这种单一的聪明标准、违反了多元化、种族平等的政治正确。 第二章还没看完:大致描述了投行的等级制度和如何压榨新人的时间。里头有一个段子说投行6点半给点外卖、8点给报销打车。让我想到了我大互联...
评分第一章:其实就是说通过“名校”的隐秘光环,塑造一种大家都是聪明人的标准,这种单一的聪明标准、违反了多元化、种族平等的政治正确。 第二章还没看完:大致描述了投行的等级制度和如何压榨新人的时间。里头有一个段子说投行6点半给点外卖、8点给报销打车。让我想到了我大互联...
legitimately well-written with just the right amount of case studies. However, she said she went to wall street for field work and I highly doubt that.
评分当作九十年代初期的华尔街见闻录来看了…作者因其身份便利出发 选的采访对象大都是亚裔 女性 然后自诩为本研究特色…不过看其采访内容却没体现出这一人群的啥特色…但人类真的是很擅长自我辩解的动物…后面的理论部分没看
评分主要是满足了我的猎奇心。。分析力度一般。
评分Globalisierung + wirtschaftliche Verflechtungen.
评分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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