Hedged Out
Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street
$43.99
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
25 January 2022
Summary
A former hedge fund worker takes an ethnographic approach to Wall Street to expose who wins, who loses, and why inequality endures.
Who do you think of when you imagine a hedge fund manager? A greedy fraudster, a visionary entrepreneur, a wolf of Wall Street? These tropes capture the public imagination of a successful hedge fund manager. But behind the designer suits, helicopter commutes, and illicit pursuits are the everyday stories of people who work in the hedge fu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520307704 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520307704 |
| Author: | Megan Tobias Neely |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 25 January 2022 |
| Weight: | 635g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“A clear-eyed assessment of hedge funds as engines of inequality… . Neely’s analysis is on point and fair-minded. Finance industry workers and those aspiring to join the industry should consider it essential reading.” * Publisher’s Weekly *
“Beautifully written and a page turner… . The analysis is also skilfully interwoven with observations and interviews, making it accessible and embodied by real flesh-and-blood characters.” * British Journal of Sociology *
“Explain[s] the new financial order by dissecting the people who run the investment firms.” * Wall Street Journal *
Megan Tobias Neely
Megan Tobias Neely is Assistant Professor in the Department of Organization at Copenhagen Business School and coauthor of Divested: Inequality in the Age of Finance.
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