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OverviewSince the early 1980s, private equity investors have heralded and shepherded massive changes in American capitalism. From outsourcing to excessive debt taking, private equity investment helped normalize once-taboo business strategies while growing into an over $3 trillion industry in control of thousands of companies and millions of workers. Daniel Scott Souleles opens a window into the rarefied world of private equity investing through ethnographic fieldwork on private equity financiers. Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss documents how and why investors buy, manage, and sell the companies that they do; presents the ins and outs of private equity deals, management, and valuation; and explains the historical context that gave rise to private equity and other forms of investor-led capitalism. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel Scott SoulelesPublisher: University of Nebraska Press Imprint: University of Nebraska Press ISBN: 9781496214782ISBN 10: 1496214781 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 01 June 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables 1. Who Gets Rich, and Why? 2. Where Did Private Equity Come From? 3. Who Are They? 4. What Do They Do? 5. How Are They Any Different? 6. How Do You Study Them? 7. Where’s the Value? 8. Do We Even Have Time? 9. To Buy or Not to Buy? 10. What Should We Think of Ourselves? Acknowledgments Appendix: Informants Glossary Notes References IndexReviewsSongs 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 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 -- Keith Hart Author InformationDaniel Scott Souleles is an assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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