Status Updates From Liquidated: An Ethnography ...

"The conclusion... of the M&A boom and bust in the 1990s is the same. Shareholder value must be read as a political strategy to monopolize corporate control and advocate for 'the demands of financial interest to reap high returns' in a very short amount of time. This logic of shareholder value imposed certain practices that 'victimized the poorly protected parties such as workers, suppliers, and host communities'"

"To be considered 'smart' on Wall Street is to be implicated in a web of situated practices and ideologies, co-produced through the interactions of multiple institutions, processes, and American culture at large, which confer authority and legitimacy... The culture of smartness is not simply a quality of Wall Street, but a currency, a driving force productive of both profit accumulation and global prowess."

Updates 2 years later lol