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Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange
Marc Flandreau
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Description for Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange
Hardcover. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; JHM; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentleman-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned society, showing that anthropological studies were integral to investment and speculation in foreign government debt, and, inversely, that finance played a crucial role in shaping the contours of human knowledge.
Flandreau argues that ... Read more
Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentleman-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned society, showing that anthropological studies were integral to investment and speculation in foreign government debt, and, inversely, that finance played a crucial role in shaping the contours of human knowledge.
Flandreau argues that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226360300
SKU
V9780226360300
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