Description
In addition to providing invaluable ethnographic insight, Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss is also an anthropological study of inequality as Souleles connects the core components of financial capitalism to economic disparities. Souleles uses local ideas of "value" and "time" to frame the ways private equity investors comprehend their work and to show how they justify the prosperity and poverty they create. Throughout, Souleles argues that understanding private equity investors as contrasted with others in society writ large is essential to fully understanding private equity within the larger context of capitalism in the United States.
About the Author
Daniel Scott Souleles is an assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School.
Reviews
"Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss addresses the recent financial catastrophe through a study of private equity companies. The sequence of argument follows the anthropologist's journey as a field researcher in a movement made compelling by his jargon-free and fluent prose."-Keith Hart, coauthor of Economic Anthropology: History, Ethnography, Critique
Book Information
ISBN 9781496214782
Author Daniel Scott Souleles
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint University of Nebraska Press
Publisher University of Nebraska Press