Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science - Softcover

Flandreau, Marc

 
9780226360447: Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange: A Financial History of Victorian Science
Softcover
ISBN 10: 022636044X ISBN 13: 9780226360447
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2016

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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 Victorian gentleman-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned society, showing that anthropological studies were integral to investment and speculation in foreign government debt, and, inversely, that finance played a crucial role in shaping the contours of human knowledge.

Flandreau argues that finance and science were at the heart of a new brand of imperialism born during Benjamin Disraeli’s first term as Britain’s prime minister in the 1860s. As anthropologists advocated the study of Miskito Indians or stated their views on a Jamaican rebellion, they were in fact catering to the impulses of the stock exchange—for their own benefit. In this way the very development of the field of anthropology was deeply tied to issues relevant to the financial market—from trust to corruption. Moreover, this book shows how the interplay between anthropology and finance formed the foundational structures of late nineteenth-century British imperialism and helped produce essential technologies of globalization as we know it today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marc Flandreau is professor at the Graduate Institute for International Studies and Development in Geneva under joint appointments in the departments of history and economics. He is the author of The Making of Global Finance 1880&;1913 and The Glitter of Gold and is the editor of Money Doctors: The Experience of International Financial Advising 1850&;2000. 

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
022636044X
ISBN 13 
9780226360447
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Anzahl der Seiten
441
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