Anthropologists in the stock exchange : a financial history of Victorian science

Anthropologists in the stock exchange : a financial history of Victorian science /

Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of global finance. Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victo...

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Main Author: Flandreau, Marc (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016
Subjects:
Anthropological Society of London > History > 19th century.
Stock Exchange (London, England) > History > 19th century.
Anthropology > England > History > 19th century.
Learned institutions and societies > Corrupt practices > England > London > History > 19th century.
Stock exchanges > Corrupt practices > England > London > History > 19th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the stock exchange modality
  • Writing about the margin
  • Rise of the cannibals
  • Anthropologists without qualities
  • The ogre of foreign loans
  • The learned society in the foreign debt food chain
  • Acts of speculation
  • Wanderlust
  • Salt-water anthropology
  • The violence of science
  • The man who ate the cannibals
  • Subject races
  • Conclusion: catharsis.

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