Karen Ho - Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota
Watching Wall Street
Welcome to this DFL Education Foundation Podcast, featuring
Karen Ho, Author of “Liquidated”. The conversation will explore the culture of Wall Street, how it conflicts with Main Street, and what it means for life after the financial crisis. It all started with massive downsizing at AT&T. In the mid-1990s, Karen Ho was studying anthropology as a graduate student at Princeton, searching for the focus of her dissertation. Ho, now an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, remembers thinking that 40,000 workers losing their jobs was horrible news. But the stock market applauded it, sending AT&T shares up.
