Songs of Profit, Songs of Loss: Private Equity, Wealth, and Inequality

by Daniel Souleles and Daniel Scott Souleles

Book Overview

Since 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496214781
• ISBN13: 9781496214782
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"