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Ho, Karen Zouwen.

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Liquefying corporations and communities: Wall Street worldviews and socio-economic transformations in the postindustrial economy.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Liquefying corporations and communities: Wall Street worldviews and socio-economic transformations in the postindustrial economy./
Author:	Ho, Karen Zouwen.
Description:	402 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-01, Section: A, page: 0200.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-01A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3078628
ISBN:	0493995056

Liquefying corporations and communities: Wall Street worldviews and socio-economic transformations in the postindustrial economy.
Ho, Karen Zouwen.

Liquefying corporations and communities: Wall Street worldviews and socio-economic transformations in the postindustrial economy. - 402 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-01, Section: A, page: 0200.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2003.

This dissertation, “Liquefying Corporations and Communities: Wall Street Worldviews and Social-Economic Transformations in the Postindustrial Economy” is an ethnography of the new cultural logics of finance as a pivotal site to explore the social and ethical implications of late capitalism in the United States. I argue that it is precisely the expansion and prominence of financial and stock market values that have strongly contributed to the severe social dislocations social scientists have attributed to global capitalism at large: the dismantling of corporate and governmental safety nets, the wave of corporate downsizings and restructurings, the re-inscribing of hierarchical urban and global spaces. I examine the contestations between competing capitalist worldviews and practices of the post WWII era to not only write against assumptions of a singular, static, totalizing capitalist worldview (and homogenous capitalists), but also to allow an interrogation of how Wall Street's financial, stock market values, as a particular capitalist model, triumphed over paternalistic welfare capitalism in the U.S. in the late twentieth century.

ISBN: 0493995056Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Liquefying corporations and communities: Wall Street worldviews and socio-economic transformations in the postindustrial economy.
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