Odd Lots
An Anthropologist Explains How Wall Street Culture Reshaped The Entire Economy
Mon, 04 Nov 2019
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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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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