November 4, 2019· 44 min
An Anthropologist Explains How Wall Street Culture Reshaped The Entire Economy
Orality
Model
85%
Oral-dominant (speeches, podcasts, storytelling)
Speaker Breakdown
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,620 words)
M:29%
HostTracy Alloway(1,349 words)
M:28%
GuestKaren Ho(3,670 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic29%
definitely, absolutely, very
Engagement54%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
sort (87x), actually (74x), what (57x)
Parallelism100%
So every day of the week, Tom ..., And you can find every new epi..., And I'm Joe Weisenthal....
Sound Patterns82%
58 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases11%
you know what, i mean, the bottom line
Literate Indicators
Hedging10%
may, maybe, quite
Passive Voice12%
is karen, being socialized, is interpreted
Abstract Nouns30%
investment, business, chase.com/business
Subordination7%
because, until, though
Sentence Length48%
Avg: 17.0 words/sentence
Word Complexity52%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style46%
385 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
apply, daily, definitely
Description
Where did the notion come from that the obligation of a company's management is to maximize shareholder returns, even if it means pain for workers? On this week's Odd Lots podcast, we speak with Karen Ho, a professor of anthropology at the University of Minnesota, who can answer the above question. Unlike your typical anthropologist, she did her field work inside a Wall Street bank to discover how the specific culture of finance bled through to the real economy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.