Liquidated

While Financial Collapses are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles, 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 of Wall Street investment bankers, Ho describes how a financially dominant but highly unstable market system is understood, justified, and produced through the restructuring of corporations and the larger economy.

Karen Ho is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.