Making Markets Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street

Name: Making Markets Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street
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ISBN: 9780674006881

ISBN-10: 0674006887

ISBN-13: 9780674006881

Edition: 1996

Authors: Mitchel Y. Abolafia

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In the wake of million-dollar scandals brought about by Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, and their like, Wall Street seems like the province of rampant individualism operating at the outermost extremes of self-interest and greed. But this, Mitchel Abolafia suggests, would be a case of missing the real culture of the Street for the characters who dominate the financial news. Making Markets, an ethnography of Wall Street culture, offers a more complex picture of how the market and its denizens work. Not merely masses of individuals striving independently, markets appear here as socially constructed institutions in which the behavior of traders is suspended in a web of customs, norms, and…

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List price: $39.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748



Introduction: Market Makers on Wall Street



Homo Economicus Unbound: Bond Traders on Wall Street



Structured Anarchy: Formal and Informal Organization in the Futures Market



Taming the Market: Conflict Resolution among Market Makers



Responding to External Threats



Homo Economicus Restrained: Identity and Control at the New York Stock Exchange



Coping with the Threat of Extinction



Opportunism and Innovation: An Interpretation of the Milken Drama



Cycles of Opportunism: Profits, Prudence, and the Public Interest


Notes


Index