An Anthropologist Explains How Wall Street Culture Reshaped The Entire Economy
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Where did the notion come from that the obligation of a company's management is to maximize shareholder returns, even if it means pain for workers? On this week's Odd Lots podcast, we speak with Karen Ho, a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, who can answer the above question. Unlike your typical anthropologist, she did her field work inside a Wall Street bank to discover how the specific culture of finance bled through to the real economy.
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